Quotes About Authenticity

and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

I need to become who I already am

C'est la vanité, ce n'est pas d'être équilibré qui va me garder indemne

I've faked orgasms before, but this is the first time I've faked not having an orgasm.

She'd been grateful to Rhea, for her honesty. Relieved by it, that someone as special and smart as Rhea'd had these same feelings. It's lonely, being a grown-up. It feels like walking through life in a mask.

Outsiders pretend to be insiders, and it makes them unlikable. Insiders pretend to be outsiders, and we love to play along.

Interesting people aren't interested in appearing interesting

Sincerity that pure was impossible to include in my life then, and I had to turn away. It was like looking at the sun.

My least favorite received idea about writing is that one must find one's voice, as if it's there inside you, ready to be turned on like a player piano. Like character, its very existence depends on interaction with the world.

A tip for you-Little Miss Innocent routine only works when there's a credible belief that innocence is possible.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.

I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met.

Faith Cowry turned out to be little, dark, skinny, bright-eyed as a wren, and not the least bit stupid. And despite what Estella'd said, she didn't strike me as absentminded either, just somebody who knew what mattered, and it didn't include showing up on time to meet Estella's low-life friends.

There was the way she moved and the way she looked at people and the way she'd turned herself into Nobbie Wainwright on the way Aiaia. She'd been playing a governess when we met her, but that wasn't what she was.

The purpose of social media is to show everyone the life you wish you were living, not the one you're actually living. Most people are living two lives. The one they let people see, and the real one.

Secrets, she discovered, were clutter. They filled the space inside you and gathered dust. They stopped you connecting fully with people.

Being yourself is the one thing every person should excel at.

I'm not what you might call a mystery. I'm pretty much an open book – Jake says I'm an audio book, because everything I'm thinking comes out of my mouth.

Los complejos son personales. Lo importante es que no debes tener miedo a dejar que la gente conozca tu verdadero «yo». En eso consiste tener intimidad con alguien.

Don't ever apologize for being who you are.

In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are just passing time.