Quotes About Identity

still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines

I just feel like my body is in all these different pieces and even though it looks like I'm all put together, the pieces are really just floating there and if I fall down too hard, I'll fly apart.

Death is suddenly objectionable to you when the dead has a name you know?

She ain't my girl, she's her own girl, she don't belong to anyone.

Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack.

We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay.

Youth is a form of mental illness.

Na sua vida, nunca conhecera uma prostituta tão bem-educada. Não condizia, ser puta e ao mesmo tempo saber tanto.

Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, "for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic

I am one of the most famous reformed junkies on the planet," she told Joss's nemesis, Page Six. "What is it about me that says to Joss Sackler, 'I will sell out to you?

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, 'for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village.

It could only have been strange for Arthur—an American Jew who had experienced anti-Semitism firsthand, who, as a student, had protested against the rise of Hitler, whose family loathed the Germans just as ardently, and probably more so, than other Americans did—to listen to Marietta's story. But then, until recently, Arthur himself had worked for a German-owned company, Schering.

None of us, not any one of us, wants to be defined by the worst day or the worst hour or the worst moment of our lives.

break through the corporate veil so that they can name the owners.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it's a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce." "It's a clever lettuce, then." "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it's a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.

We are more than the parts that form us.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

We all become what we pretend to be.

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.