Quotes About Authenticity

She stared into the distance and tried to think, honestly and properly, about her life: up here where it was clearer, and she could breathe, and she wasn't surrounded by a million people in a great hurry dashing or grabbing or shouting or achieving things in their lives that they plastered all over Facebook and Instagram, making you feel inadequate.

If you can't enjoy having a motherfucking baby with the motherfucking woman you love, fuck you, son. And also. Fuck you.

Look for something real.' Syrinda had said. But how could she, when she didn't even know what that was?

Find something true to your spirit and your soul and do it every day.

And his advice, you know. Find something true to your spirit and your soul and do it every day.

I found myself an unusual feeling: wanting to do something for solely the pure reasons that I wanted to do it. Not because I thought I ought to or because other people wanted me to do it or because it felt like the right age to be doing things or because it would lead me up the ladder.

Um . . . well, I see most of the people I want to see. And I don't really see the point of it otherwise, unless you want to show off and all that." "That," said Kim-Ange, "is annoyingly sensible. And misses out on the joy of showing off.

Everyone's different from how they look on the outside

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.

I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this. And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking,because we both know-this is the night we become real.

I wonder, though…what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.

I just let people believe what they please. I don't feel like it's my responsibility to quantify myself for them.

The words come out of my mouth, but they don't sound like me. I don't sound like me. Probably because I know it's all lies. But I can see that they're lies that Reeve believes. He swallows them whole. His eyes go blank. Empty. He completely shuts down.

I just mean that you should give people a chance to know you." Josh points the remote control at me and says, "If people knew you, they would love you." He sounds so matter-of-fact. Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.

Laurel was no bullshit. She didn't say things she didn't mean.

Some girls are pretty and they were born for it but no matter what always be yourself because people might see the wrong side of you

He smells like pool, and summer, and vacations. It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) the really hard experiences are worth having, if you can channel those emotions into something beautiful.

Let's do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let's go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.

I wish that things could go back to the way they were between us. That you could be you and I could be me, and we'd have fun with each other, and it would be a really sweet first romance that I'll remember my whole life.

The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.