Quotes About Authenticity

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

She pulled away. "That doesn't make any sense." "Neither does this," he said, "but I don't care. I'm sick of trying to pretend I can live without you. Don't you understand that? Can't you see it's killing me?

Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then." "I love you, Jace Wayland—Herondale—Lightwood—whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other way is just a waste of time.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.

Do not let those who cannot see the truth tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.

It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

He wants her in his bedroom. And not in that way — no girl has ever been in his bedroom that way. It is his private space, his sanctuary. But he wants Clary there. He wants her to see him, the reality of him, not the image he shows the world. He wants to lie down on the bed with her and have her curl into him. He wants to hold her as she breathes softly through the night; to see her as no one else sees her: vulnerable and asleep. To see her and to be seen.

This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you.

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

I do not walk like a duck.

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves. -Jace Wayland

There's more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can't lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus.

There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself