Quotes About Self-expression

We had this talk," she said. "You may be dead sexy, and I mean, like, really dead and really sexy, but you don't get to tell me what to do. Right? And no head-shrinker stuff, either, or I swear to God, I'll pack my shit and move!

One should never create tension between one's footwear.

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

You shouldn't have to tiptoe around your own home

Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.

I stand up from the table and wiggle my index finger at Nick. He'll never get it, but I borrow from Heathers as I leave him to follow Tris. A true friend's work is never done, I singsong. Bulimia is so '87, Heather, he answers. HOLY SHIT squared. I think I just had my first orgasm.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.

I am stronger than words and bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

But we had never gone out of our way to reveal ourselves, either. Instead, we'd let the facts speak for themselves.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement. One could say things in writing without feeling self-conscious, without feeling shy and ashamed and foolish -- one could even write of the days of young Nelson, smiling a very little as one did so.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

realize I hate the word widow. It's sexless. I'm never using it again.)

Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?' Oh, I don't know. I'm a fat piece of shit, I guess.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

You invent yourself...You look at other women-or men; you try on their lives for size. You take what you can use, and you look inside yourself for what you can't find elsewhere. And always...always...you wonder if you're doing it right.

What I meant is that he has Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He hesitated, not quite sure how to put it into words. "… a sense of himself that is quite separate from what society demands. He is inclined to make his own rules.

Still, when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?

Women are never too old to wear pink," Fergus replied firmly. "I have heard les mesdames say so, many times.

shades of brown and gold, and if I did say so myself, it fit me like a glove.

You invent yourself," I said softly, to the shadows inside the hair that had fallen over my face. "You look at other women—or men; you try on their lives for size. You take what you can use, and you look inside yourself for what you can't find elsewhere. And always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you wonder if you're doing it right.