Quotes of: Bad-rap Keyword

All men have a little badness in them,' she whispered. Milo looked at her. 'Sometimes, honey... a woman can be just as evil as a man.

The House of Gentle Men

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

The House of Mirth

A Guardian lover is the last thing you need, Wynn Myfanwy, she told herself sternly. Too bad it was the very first thing she wanted.

Hard as a Rock

Cooking wasn’t so bad, I thought. In fact, it was a lot like sex. Sometimes it didn’t seem like such a good idea in the beginning, but then after you got into it …

Hot Six

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Heist Society

To be a devil isn't so bad; to be a devil that can still see beauty, still remember what it was like to be in the sight of the most holy, now that was an obscenity, and that was what I was.

The Innocent: A Myth

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

Inkdeath

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

John Dies at the End

This seemed like one of those make-it-or-break-it moments where you have to consciously choose to do the right thing. Or be bad.

Just Say Yes

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

Kiss of Death

Change always sounds bad <...> we make it worse by resisting it. Sometimes the only thing worth pursuing is change. How else would we learn anything?

Kiss of Fire

Sometimes we need to feel bad to know what it's like to feel good...

The Real Verdict: My Quest for the Freedom I Never Had

The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

The Restful Mind

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Siddhartha

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

Summer Island

Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

Mother's Milk

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

The Monk