Rotten Inside Quotes

#1. Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. The girl was rotten inside. Peel off a layer of that beautiful skin, and you'd find nothing but rotten flesh.

Haruki Murakami

#4. One who provokes a person by speaking has only called to the surface the passion that was already there. The person who becomes disturbed is like a rotten loaf of bread, which looks all right outside, but inside is mouldy, so that if anyone breaks it its rottenness appears. - Dorotheos

Dee Pennock

#5. I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell

Laura Wiess

#6. I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men.

Robinson Jeffers

#7. People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves for the injustice of the present by smearing the future inside them with this shit. They're cowards deep down, and just. That's their nature.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#8. On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

Neal Shusterman

#9. Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

Terry Goodkind

#10. The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

Cassandra Clare

#11. That clock's a lot like the town, she decided. Looks good, sounds great, pretends to be some sort of masterpiece. But it's broken. It's rotten and broken right down inside where its heart's cogs meet. That's Toll.

Frances Hardinge

#12. The realisation that Stevey is dead returns to me in flashes, like a rotten tooth it suddenly strikes a nerve and throbs inside me.

HISTORIES OF THE DEAD

Math Bird

#13. Don't you get it? My soul is broken! I'm messed up, sick in the head, rotten to the core! I'm damaged. I'll never find the kind of love you did because I'll never be happy inside. All

Soman Chainani