Quotes About Authenticity

I can't look like a cheap-ass in front of my boys.

How am I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.

it's scary when it's real. when it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real person in front of you, with, like, expectations. and wants.

Before Elaine, Sherilyn was my closest girl friend. I still like Sherilyn, but after so many years of knowing each other, the little things started to pile up and bug me. She cares way too much about what Mairi and Hadley think. It's embarrassing. Even when we were little, she was rushing to impress them, rushing to anything them, and she just never measured

Why am I the one making all these concessions, pretending to be okay with something I'm not actually okay with? Just to keep him?

Porque vivo en el mundo real, no como tú. Prefieres habitar en un mundo de fantasía antes que ver cómo son los demás realmente.

I'm not going to win any contests, but at least people will know what I am. I wish I never have to answer a What are you? question ever again.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful" ? Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

Friendship in college was different that way. You spend all this time with people, sometimes every day, every meal. There was no hiding who you were in front of your friends. You were just naked.

Acho que agora consigo ver a diferença entre amar alguém de longe e amar de perto. Quando você convive com a pessoa, vê quem ela é de verdade, e ela também vê você. E Peter me vê. Ele me vê, e eu o vejo. O amor é assustador; ele se transforma; ele murcha. Faz parte do risco.

You looked cute in your sweater, by the way. I'm not saying that to butter you up. I mean it.

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.

he's never looked at another girl quite like this. And then 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.

C'est effrayant quand ça devient réel. C'est une chose d'avoir des sentiments pour quelqu'un. C'en est une autre d'avoir la personne en face. De gérer ses attentes. Ses envies.

I used to only care about what everyone thought of me, but not anymore. Now I only care about what the people I love think of me, and everyone else can rot in hell!

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.

But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!

The wife has begun planning a secret life. In it, she is an art monster. She puts on yoga pants and says she is going to yoga, then pulls off onto a country lane and writes in tiny cramped writing on a grocery list She thinks she should go off her meds maybe so as to write more fluidly. Possibly this is not a good idea. But only possibly.

Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!

You don't really even have a job, do you?" Ben says one day when I come home early. It's true. I could be one of those people who got fired months ago but still pretends to go to work every day.

Three things no one has ever said about me: You make it look so easy. You are very mysterious. You need to take yourself more seriously.

I don't understand you. I can't treat myself like a hurdy-gurdy from which I can take out an unpopular piece and put in a tune that everybody is whistling.