Quote by Tom Perrotta

“Yeah, I had all kinds of tragic reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“The horror came as I realized that, for what he had done, the child in me was right to blame him entirely, and the…

— Rebecca Coleman

“He couldn’t imagine what had made his father so angry or the townspeople so mean, but he knew with a child’s sudden, clear conviction…

— Lynn Flewelling

“I lowered my hands and stared at the tiny horse, considering his question. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like…

— Barbara Elsborg

“So young, but she was such a fucking temptress. He’d taught her well, or maybe it had simply been inside her all along. And…

— Isabella Starling

“She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself.”

— Virginia Woolf

“She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.”

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

“What I remembered about the man then was how helpless he'd seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him cruel.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have…

— Edward St Aubyn

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might…

— Kimberley Freeman