“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.”— Chelsea Handler, amazon.com
“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“I flipped through my identities like a card catalog, selecting the one that fit that day, that hour, that minute. I learned how to disappear.”— Stacy Pershall, amazon.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com