“Underneath the suits, behind closed doors, we're all ruled by the same desires. And those desires can be raw and dark and deeply shameful. The more you watch someone, the more you realize, we are never really who we say we are. In fact, hidden underneath, there's always a secret. We might actually b…”— Lisa Rubin, Jean Holloway, Naomi Watts, imdb.com
“What if who we are and what we do become one and the same? What if our work is so thoroughly autobiographical that we can't parse the product from the person? In this place, job descriptions and titles no longer make sense; we no longer go to work, we are the work.”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“What we do is not who we are, and although we know this, we still, continually, over red-pepper bisque at a dinner party, ask each other what we do for a living.”— Erin Loechner, amazon.com
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”— John Green, amazon.com
“There are things in me, things I was designed to do that are just out of my reach.”— Charles Yu, Lisa Joy, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“They're not looking for a story that tells them who they are. They already know who they are. They're here because they want a glimpse of who they could be.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”— John Green, 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