when you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little imperfection can become a spiteful nickname

Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)

I would never do anything just for spite.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.