Selfishness Quote by Veronica Roth

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us.…

— Veronica Roth

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“...she gave him all the love she could not give herself. She loved him becasue he was the embodiment of those attributes she wanted…

— Lilian Pizzichini

“He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try…

— Meredith Duran

“She wanted this man with an intensity that defied logic. Which was part of the reason she’d been ignoring him. A girl only had…

— Katie Reus

“She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy, she was…

— Leo Tolstoy

“To hell with the way the modern world thinks, she won’t even try to pretend that he doesn't own her. Every touch, every move,…

— Karen-Anne Stewart

“She wanted him happy, more even than she wanted happiness for herself. And yet, knowing he was on his way to finding what he…

— Nora Roberts

“He does not trust her: she will claim to be in a bad mood when she is not, and then require him to be…

— Lydia Davis

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just…

— Margaret Mitchell

“It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.”

— Larry McMurtry