Quotes About Authenticity

Why don't boys like girls as they are?' 'They bore easy cause the so deadhead. Sometimes they want you mami, sometimes sis, sometimes lovergirl. You game with boys you got to know who you are and not let them tell you'.

Every day affords individual people moments when they can shake off everything that is false and can view things from their perspective.

The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to get on with her life.

Trust yourself if you want other people to trust you.

Writers give readers courage – the courage to be utterly your complete and complex self. (In reference to Audre Lorde)

I am lying to myself. I am always lying to myself and I really must stop it. I am alone. My friends don't know how to talk to me or write to me any more

Be brave, be clever, and be true to your heart.

I feel like people are always speaking with their eyes, their bodies, their hands, gestures, intonation, and their words - only mostly all we hear are the words. And the words get in the way. So if we just spoke with our eyes we might get closer to the truth.

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Rocky had refused to meet with her family over the holidays. "I just can't. Not this year. I refuse to pretend that I am celebrating anything," she told them.

While I may be guilty of many things, one of them is not that I would lie to you. I will tell you every awful truth," he promised. "I will not lie to you, at least not about big things. If you ask about hairstyles, butt size, or shoes, then I might resort to creative answers.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.

When you have so much real drama in your life, it's hard to think about fiction.

I wanted to climb into her world and live in it with her. She was beautiful and kind and funny and identified as "certified crazy." I learned that certified crazy meant nothing to lose, nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be self-conscious about.

I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

What should he say to this woman that wouldn't entail ornamenting the tunic of lies he wore?

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed.

Organic grow-your-own-granola food is not my style. When a style or a trend wants to impose a way of behaving on me, I do the exact opposite; I might even develop a particular fondness for potassium sorbate and sodium erythorbate.

Procesul de maturizare, care ar trebui s?-l conduc? pe fiecare mai aproape de el însu?i, trece prin eliberarea progresiv? de nevoia de a fi iubit ?i aprobat. ?i mai ales de nevoia de a fi iubit pentru ceva ce nu e?ti.

You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they don't want to be left out of the scene around them.

Me conmueves toda tú representando tu vida con esa pasión tan torpe y tan limpia, como el que quiere matarse para contar: soy suicida.