Quotes About Authenticity

We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.

Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.

Kisses could lie as well as words.

Stop lying by omission

We allow brushes of hands without flinching, smiles without premeditation. It feels real. It feels solid. I finally begin to feel fully human.

I'm not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who'd submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.

No, Kez, don't pour sugar on a pile of shit and call it breakfast.

Don't go all unicorns pooping rainbows on us.

What we have is real love, but real love is messy and complicated. How can it not be, with our history?

What we have is real love, but real love is messy and complicated.

What we have is real love, but real love is messy

If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth. -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.

I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.

My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up.

If I were going to give you more advice that I myself can't seem to take, I would tell you that in order to build character, you don't invent a new self, you instead build on what's already there. The good parts. The things you love. As horrid as it sounds, at a certain point—i.e., the point we're at now—you build your character on the foundation of all the things you love.

Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection.

So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly.

If I'm just The Guy With Norah, that's cool. Right now, that's all I want to be. All the other things I am—they're too complicated. I can feel them lying in wait, planning their return.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.

But that's what I love about punk music. It has a sense of humor about itself, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's kickass funk with a heavy-metal edge, but with a conscience." Good

But we had never gone out of our way to reveal ourselves, either. Instead, we'd let the facts speak for themselves.