Quotes About Authenticity

We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are liars and the truth is not in them.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

One of her in dirty sweats is worth ten of you naked on your knees, so get the fuck out.

I don't say sweet things and make love and all that bullshit. I like sex hard and rough, no holding back.

Yeah, this good-guy bullshit wasn't his gig at all.

I never promised you a rose garden.  I never promised you perfect justice…and I never promised you peace or happiness... I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie…

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

Ahora que no te escribo cuando me voy. Ahora que estoy más vivo de lo que estoy. Ahora que nada es urgente, que todo es presente, que hay pan para hoy. Ahora que no te pido lo que me das. Ahora que no me mido con los demás. Ahora que, todos los cuentos, parecen el cuento de nunca empezar.

Pídele cuentas a la pura verdad que no se pringa, que no tiene piedad; yo sólo me colgué medallas que no gané.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsy hearts.

I don't care if there are cracks in us, we are still us. We don't have to be perfect to be right.

No one wants to disappear. Words made things real, and they last so much longer than we do. So, for the record, here are the things I want to be real. And I hope that words are enough to make them that way

I'm not myself,' she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish. He smiled. 'You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

But you are the only person I can show myself to. You always made my rough edges feel real.

She had the stabbing, prickly feeling she had gotten in the third grade when she'd cheated on a math test. It was throbbing, gut-pounding feeling that she was a big fake about to be caught.

I'm not myself," she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish. He smiled. "You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

Maybe figuring it out is... I don't know, what it's all about. Constantly deciding. And you're true enough not to decide anything before you're ready, and you don't want to lock yourself up in a box. Maybe it's the sure people who are missing out.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.