“Well, if you don't have any nice words I mean, anything nice to say, just you know, lie.”— Hilly Hicks Jr., Jessica Jones, Krysten Ritter, imdb.com
“I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“There is nothing crueler than the person who doesn’t want you enough to keep you, but who doesn’t love you enough to let you go.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I had to turn my back on him to keep from saying something mean, something he didn't deserve but something I wanted to say, anyway. Does knowing your'e about to be a bitch make it any easier? More justifiable?”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?”— Kelley Armstrong, amazon.com
“Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com