Quotes About Self-awareness

I told you kid... You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina--- or the knife.

It doesn't matter unless you let it matter.

Everyone is a little wrong sometimes, Heiress.

Quite frankly, I thought that tools who lived in tool houses probably shouldn't throw stones.

I told you, kid," Nash said beside me. "You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina—or the knife.

Nothing has to matter," Grayson replied tightly, "unless you let it.

It doesn't have to be anything other than what it is. No messy feelings. No obligations. No promises. No expectations.

I stared at him--through the night, through the space between us. He looked away first. I was used to people walking away. I was good at not expecting anything from anyone.

Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they've got a monster hiding inside.

Though you work like mad to keep parts of you undiscovered, it is horrible to imagine that you will be completely successful. As the psychologist D.W. Winnicott wrote, "It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.

Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I'm still here and have a say.

Labels like "bipolar" say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses.

I am not perfect. I have secrets. I am messy. Not just my bedroom but me. No one likes messy.

I'm not a vain person, but I am human...

And for a long time I look at myself in the bathroom mirror, and I actually disappear before my eyes. I am disappearing. Maybe I'm already gone.

I take a good long look at her. I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. That's all on me too. But man, I like this girl.

You're actually not a bad guy, Jack Masselin. But I'm not sure you know it yet.

No one can bring me to tears faster than myself.

Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don't surprise you when you're not expecting them

It's not your fault. And sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for." Not that I'm one to talk.

It's not your fault. And sorry is wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

Do I feel I should be punished? Yes. Why else would I have given myself bangs?

I take a good long look at her. I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. That's all on me too. But man, I like this girl.

It's easy to give everyone what they want. What's expected. The problem with doing this is you lose sight of where you truly begin and where the fake you, the one who tries to be everything to everyone, ends.