“Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist
The Hypocrite (1768), Act v, scene 1.
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
“Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist
The Hypocrite (1768), Act v, scene 1.
“No one in the world like my sister Birdie.”
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 84; spoken by Hughie
Adam Thorpe (1956) British writer
Joseph and Walter
Nineteen Twenty-One (2001)
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
“So. You’re saying my sister’s dressed like a prostitute”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
A former chief of Abombi to Conan
"The Scarlet Citadel" (1933)
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
" Between Us Now, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/between-us-now/" lines 21-24, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)
Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting
Spud, "Kicking Again: Na Na and Other Nazis" (Chapter 3, Story 2).
Trainspotting (1993)
“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides
Source: The Virgin Suicides