“You know what? You’re an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it’s gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”— Louise Fitzhugh, amazon.com
“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is…unapologetically who they are.”— Don Cheadle, wnq-writers.com
“People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”— Brandon Stanton, amazon.com
“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.tumblr.com
“The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead, they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t. When they found this out, they would blame me for disill…”— Marilyn Monroe, amazon.com
“She has something of her very own, something suffered, accomplished, perfected.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don…”— Ivan E. Coyote, youtube.com
“I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You are your experiences and your fears and the love you let yourself feel. You are your degree and your talent and your passion. You are your pain, your joy, and your fantasies.”— Renee Carlino, amazon.com
“We all need a past - that’s where our sense of identity comes from.”— Penelope Lively, penguinrandomhouse.com