Guilt Tripping Quotes

“Anyway, Em, I am sure you are happily ensconced in your native habitat, that dreary monument to mortal rumination that is the library, no doubt thinking of me hardly at all. Well, why would you give a thought to romance or the faerie kingdom that now belongs to you as much as to me when you have a limitless supply of dusty old tomes to mutter and scowl at? I see now that my downfall as a suitor lies in my ability to offer you only a castle, great quantities of faerie silver, and various enchantment to dazzle and provoke you, instead of the full bound collection of Dryadological Fieldnotes.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

“For their innocence, they nullify your anger, your fear, until you are coming and going, and you find yourself inveighing against yourself.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me