Quotes About Authenticity

Sometimes it's easier to be someone else.

And while I want to spare Mia the circus, I don't care if the whole world knows we're together.

Amazing things happen when you stop hiding behind that hulking beast.

It was so new that day: the liberation of being honest, of being brave, maybe a little stupid.

I'd actually rather go off with my family. This is another thing you don't advertise about yourself,

How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be? How can I come this far and not be brave?

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

Firefly, It is an act of bravery to feel your feelings

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. Hell, you're one of the punkest girls I know, no matter who you listen to or what you wear.

I'm so good at faking I don't even know when I'm doing it

There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated

And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

Pero la persona que eres esta noche es la misma de la que estaba enamorado ayer, la misma de la que estaré enamorado mañana. Me gusta que seas frágil y dura, callada y chispeante. Joder, eres una de las chicas más punkis que conozco, sea cual sea la música que escuches o la ropa que vistas.

The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them.

It's not what you are, it's who you are. And that's up to you. But I know plenty of people who call themselves *transsexual." "Transsexual," Frankie repeated. "So there is a word for it." "Oh honey, there's a word for everything on God's green earth. And if there isn't, we can just make one up.

The who you are tonight is the same you i was in love with yesterday. The same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.

Adoram fotografiile alea. Intotdeauna iti taiau capul pe jumatate sau erau intunecate de degetul cuiva, dar pareau sa prinda ceva veritabil.

I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

Even though he had blue hair and tatoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. " 'Girlfriend' is such a stupid word", he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife'

É então que, durante uma fração de segundos, eu pergunto a mim própria o que aconteceria se lhes contasse a verdade: que a faculdade não é nada como eu imaginava; que eu não sou nada a estudante do catálogo; que não sou uma aluna universitária feliz da vida; que não sei quem sou. Ou que se calhar sei muito bem quem sou, mas já não quero ser essa pessoa.