Contempt


Little Children
Half His Age
By the Letter (Mile High Billionaires, #2)
Small Things Like These
NW
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
The Emperor of Gladness
Happy Hour
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
My Dark Vanessa
Say You Swear (Boys of Avix, #1)
My Favorite Mistake (A Love Like That, #4)
Hello Stranger
We Shouldn't
James Baldwin
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Holly Black
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. ...more
Holly Black, Valiant

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