“I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.”
Colleen McCullough (1937–2015) Australian author
Justine, in The Thorn Birds (1977)
“Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.”
— Karen Marie Moning, book Darkfever
Source: Darkfever
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