Quotes About Self

I smile. But like anything you wear that doesn't fit, it pinches.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?

I'm a daughter from a strong man and beautiful mommy, and I'm so proud to be I am.

He remembered learning in one of his social studies classes that in the Old West, when Native Americans were thrown into jail, they sometimes dropped dead. The theory was that someone so used to the freedom of space couldn't handle the confinement, but Peter had another interpretation. When the only company you had was yourself, and when you didn't want to socialize, there was only one way to leave the room.

How are you going to know who I am, she finally said, if I dont look like me?

Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room half the kids in Sterling High would have given their right arm to enter-but it was also a room from which there really wasn't an escape. Either Josie was someone she didn't want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted.

Outside, the moon is a silver sliver. Every night, the shadow eats a slice of it, until it's nothing but this hollow rind. I feel the same way; with each day, I lose a little more of myself.

Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.

You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.

most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us.

I've always sort of wondered though: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

Maybe it was because I wanted to control one part of me that had been uncontrollable, so the rest of me would fall into line.

Her best friend is me; her second-best friend is herself.

The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit?

I exist," he said softly.

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself.

Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? One

But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.

I am; I was. I want to be.

His core business still is self-promotion.