Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.

Spoiled. That’s all it’s about – can’t live without this, can’t live without that. You can live without anything you weren’t born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

We’ve been spoiled this year.

unkindness �of ravens”?

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what...

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don’t get every new toy we see.

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn’t change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Poor boy.

I wasn’t sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

What an idiot I’d been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

But you shouldn’t have let her. That’s the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high–innocent or guilty. She’d have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It’s all the same...

We were spoiled last year.

Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn’t a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men...