Quotes About Authenticity

We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this, he said, gesturing at the room. I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.

I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.

I don't want easy anymore. It's worthless and the shine doesn't last.

Great power does not corrupt a person, it only brings their true self into the light

I don't want easy anymore. It's worthless and the shine doesn't last. But you already knew that.

Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. "Because she's making this one piece all she'll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul.

I expected it would be the same for me, and I wouldn't show up as a wolf in black tights and a lacy pair of underwear —as amusing as that would be. No way was I going to show them I was a nasty pasty color with freckles.

El vivir una mentira podía desgarrarte de una forma brutal y hacerte perder el control en el momento más inesperado.

Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.

He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort. For their appeasement. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

Never hide who you are

He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort. For their appeasement. -Cackle by Kim Harrsion

It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

If you don't act on it, it wasn't a true feeling

I realized right then and there, the world was real. The World was real .

Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes.

No more fucking around, reality has struck

Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive-or worse.

den brystsyke herremand foretrak denne gamle sæterhytte. Her satte han sig på træstolen og fik melk av en bolle eller rømmekolle av et trækjørel, det smakte av barndom og oprindelighet, det smakte endog damen som var fra byen og skrev på skrivemaskine og kunde fransk.

en av os bondestudenter som er blit skadet indvortes ved å bli overflyttet til fremmed jord og atmosfære, han er en liten rumler fra landsbygden som gjærne vil agere frighetsmand og staskar hvortil han ikke er født. Manden mangler hjærtets dannelse, hans blod er falsk i ham. Nærmere uttrykt er han en begavet skøiergut som aldri blir voksen. Det er min lille mening.

If you speak any lines, or do anything, mechanically, without fully realizing who you are, where you came from, why, what you want, where you are going, and what you will do when you get there, you will be acting without imagination. That time, whether it will be short or long, will be unreal, and you will be nothing more than a wound-up machine, an automation.

Look, it's not you. It's me , and my inability to dig dirty dudes.

I'd asked Máxim, "What will it take to get a smile out of that man?" "Your real name and ID. That's all he wants out of life. And possibly almond candies.