Quotes About Authenticity

I wasn't a big fan of women trying to fix men, to change them. I always figured there were guys enough out there, so I should look for a total package that was already fully Ikea-assembled—or go without.

Admit it: you Photoshopped your carnates.

Good thing you blend." "I do not blend.

You look like utter hell," Circe told me. "I wish you'd stop sugar-coating things, Water Witch.

If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Perhaps not. But I can tell you are malingering." "Malingering? I don't speak S.A.T.

In all these interludes with Sevastyan, I hadn't been Natalie. I'd been Natalya . And that brainless hussy didn't seem to know better.

What you are when you are alone with God, that you are— and nothing more.

The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.

If he couldn't be the kind of guy I was proud to be with in public, the act he put on for me in private didn't mean anything.

I guess. I just want to look as old as I am, instead of getting carded for movies.

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

it is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.

I've never been 'specially proud of myself, but I'd rather be the way I was born than anything else in the whole world.

the surest way to lie to others is to lie to oneself first. If you can convince the single soul who knows the falsehood for what it is, then everyone else is an easy mark.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

I think most women we go through a stage in relationship, this is men and women where I'm trusting you, but now I got to test it, I have to make sure your the real deal.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.