Quotes About Authenticity

In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

Juno: Honest to blog?

Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

Dad says that everyone invented baklava." It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. "Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

You should know you're exactly the person you think you are.

Day by day, the superficial mask she'd donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn't help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.

The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did.

I can be a better me than anyone can; I am me. Good or bad. I am myself. I'm no carbon copy of no one else.

in these stories, written with no particular reader in mind, she found the key to freeing the small boy trapped in the wrong body, a salve to the gender quandary that so dismayed her when every expectation was for her to be a girl with curls.

Find your place, and let the world gravitate to you. None of this mix-and-mingle business.

It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.

A new dress doesn't get you anywhere. It's the life you're living in the dress.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize. — Diane Arbus, Revelations (Random House, 2003)

She was many things, but a liar was not one of them.

But she could only play herself with Kyle and Lou, and that was the one role for which she could never memorize the lines.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you are still alone.

The real thing isn't always sunshine and roses and it's not always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ exciting or thrilling, but it's solid. That's the kind of thing that lasts.

I think people put on a show that they're good," I said. "Maybe they even start to, like, believe it themselves. But people are really... not evil, exactly, but they just care about themselves. They don't really care about who they step on. They just pretend like they do. You can't trust them. You really can't trust anyone.

She's smart and full of business," she said, "and she sure knows how to get things done. You, though." She nodded. "You a real human being.

what I have with Laurel is public and shallow. What I have with you is private and deep. Which part of me would you rather have?

Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.