Quotes About Authenticity

do you know what lying has in common with bullfighting?" "No, sir." "If you can't do it well, it's better not to do it at all.

Just try to be sincere, and you should have no difficulty." "I have no talent for sincerity," West muttered. "It's not a talent," Kathleen said. "It's a willingness to speak from your heart, rather than trying to be amusing or evasive." "Please," West said tersely. "I'm already nauseous.

You don't have to be anything other than what you are. Can't I love you the same way? I know who you are. I think we know each other better than we know ourselves" -Evie, lady St. Vincent-

I've learned that while gossip about others is often true, it's never true when it is about oneself.

We try to conceal our defects and say the things we think the other one wants to hear. We pretend that we're always lovely and sweet-tempered and that we don't mind the other's nasty little habits. And then after the wedding, we lower the boom.

Hardy would never be the easiest man to have a relationship with. He was complex and strong-willed and rough-edged. But I loved those qualities about him. I was more than willing to take him exactly as he was. And it didn't hurt that he seemed equally game to take me on my own terms.

I don't think they'll judge you severely, so long as they believe that you're not judging them. Just try to be sincere, and you should have no difficulty." "I have no talent for sincerity," West muttered.

Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

Men are so easily drawn to fake things.

A salad of honesty and deception is the only way I can get away with an untruth.

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

I have nothing to hide I have nothing to protect I have nothing to prove I have nothing to defend Now..who do I chose to be?

Tell them to who? Why would anyone want to hear my jokes? It was my I-don't-know-what-I-don't-know moment.

locking myself in a shell of an existence isn't healing. It's hiding.

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.

Other People's Perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves.....Sara to Amanda

They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.

We have too many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me.

We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.

This is who I am, Sara. I will protect you from everything and everyone else, but I can't protect you from who I am or who we will be if you stay with me.

All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I'm no delicate rose

You use arrogance and control to hide the real you. But I've seen you. I know you.