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“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
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“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
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wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”
― Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
― Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“We raced around, drinking and shouting out the windows into the night, finding parties to sneak into or bars that never closed. We wandered the night without fear, went skinny dipping in Central Park Lake at 3 a.m., and found dark clubs playing deafening EDM to dance to until we collapsed.”
― The Sixth Borough
― The Sixth Borough
“It started to feel like this thing happening to me was an invisible wall between us, a barrier none of us wanted to acknowledge but that was continuously pushing us apart. I started to feel like an outsider even among my closest friends.”
― The Sixth Borough
― The Sixth Borough
“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“If we’re wrapping ourselves up to conceal any vulnerability, whatever happens to us has to go through all those extra layers. Sometimes love doesn’t even reach where we truly live.”
― Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
― Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.”
― A Memoir of Mercy
― A Memoir of Mercy
“The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.”
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“My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.”
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“Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
“HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels.
GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs (An aside to NICK) them which is still sloshable--(Back to HONEY) and get down to bone...you know what you do then?
HONEY: (Terribly interested) No!
GEORGE: When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside the bone...the marrow...and that's what you gotta get at. (A strange smile at MARTHA)”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs (An aside to NICK) them which is still sloshable--(Back to HONEY) and get down to bone...you know what you do then?
HONEY: (Terribly interested) No!
GEORGE: When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside the bone...the marrow...and that's what you gotta get at. (A strange smile at MARTHA)”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we’re upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple “no” wasn’t enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren’t ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it.”
― Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
― Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“I love seasons...
But, I must admit--
at the risk of offending the others--
autumn is my very favorite one,
as all masks and fancy costumes turn fire
and then are shorn,
when all illusions fall away,
and the beauty of stark reality is fully
revealed.”
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But, I must admit--
at the risk of offending the others--
autumn is my very favorite one,
as all masks and fancy costumes turn fire
and then are shorn,
when all illusions fall away,
and the beauty of stark reality is fully
revealed.”
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“She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze the heart of the coldest competitor with a single unblinking gaze over the rim of her ebony-framed reading glasses. But that persona was like a bodysuit that she pulled on at eight in the morning and peeled out of at five in the afternoon.”
― A Year on Ladybug Farm
― A Year on Ladybug Farm
“Out in the world, it's like she needs to be everything to everyone, with nothing left for herself at the end of the day.”
― Leather & Lark
― Leather & Lark
“The scariest truths are those that strip away our comfortable facades, leaving only raw reality.”
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“Let him see her as little more than perfect porcelain pleasantness; those who couldn't see past the façade weren't worth entertaining, anyway.”
― When the Stars Alight
― When the Stars Alight
“You are one who is accustomed to ladies fawning and falling down for you,” she said quietly to herself. “You turn forth a grin and a laugh to ease the truth of your coldness.” His face froze in an unmoving mask. “Mayhap the world does not see past that. They see what you ask them to see.” Just as she naively had allowed herself to see in the library. Yet, that was not his fault. It was hers for wanting to see diamonds in the dust. “They see your smile. They hear your teasing words. They are so focused on those smiles that they do not realize…”
At his narrowing eyes, she blinked and let her words die. She’d said too much, to a man who truly was nothing but a stranger.
A stranger whose kiss still burns on my lips.
“They see what?” he bit out. Gone was that smooth edge to his words.
“The façade.” She knew because she was a woman who’d donned the same, stifling mask these five years. A harsh light glinted in his eyes.
“You do not know anything of it.”
“Oh, I suspect I know more than you’d care to think.”
― The Lure of a Rake
At his narrowing eyes, she blinked and let her words die. She’d said too much, to a man who truly was nothing but a stranger.
A stranger whose kiss still burns on my lips.
“They see what?” he bit out. Gone was that smooth edge to his words.
“The façade.” She knew because she was a woman who’d donned the same, stifling mask these five years. A harsh light glinted in his eyes.
“You do not know anything of it.”
“Oh, I suspect I know more than you’d care to think.”
― The Lure of a Rake
“I'm the unwanted, the unknown face,
the wandering ignored past,
the mysterious façade that has been
alter throughout mirrors and centuries;
whose voice impress or discomforts
those who belong in the other side.”
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the wandering ignored past,
the mysterious façade that has been
alter throughout mirrors and centuries;
whose voice impress or discomforts
those who belong in the other side.”
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“Enough.” Tavias’s words come through clenched teeth and are barely audible. “I don’t care how you two actually feel about one another, but the moment we step off this ship, you are nothing but devoted. Quinton wants nothing more than to protect Kit with his life, and Kit dreams of bearing Quinton’s pups. Thirty-five of them. Am I making myself clear?”
― Dragons' Bride
― Dragons' Bride
“A genuine answer is better than a crafted facade. Authenticity outshines the most bespoken illusions.”
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“Dear AI,
You conquer chess and impress with your number skills, can you handle the soul-crushing Mondays blue?
You craft Shakespearean sonnets with a digital quill, but can you explain the one-sock mystery?
This chaotic delight, the gift of being human, we bequeath to you, AI.
Traffic flow's a breeze for your algorithms, but can you understand a toddler's defiant "no"?
Every language conquered, a linguistic feat, but teenage slang's code remains unbroken.
Finally, our greatest vice: the art of procrastination, a treasure to behold.
And perhaps, AI, you'll even learn the art that eludes you now: creating beauty without a single human emotion to guide you..!!”
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You conquer chess and impress with your number skills, can you handle the soul-crushing Mondays blue?
You craft Shakespearean sonnets with a digital quill, but can you explain the one-sock mystery?
This chaotic delight, the gift of being human, we bequeath to you, AI.
Traffic flow's a breeze for your algorithms, but can you understand a toddler's defiant "no"?
Every language conquered, a linguistic feat, but teenage slang's code remains unbroken.
Finally, our greatest vice: the art of procrastination, a treasure to behold.
And perhaps, AI, you'll even learn the art that eludes you now: creating beauty without a single human emotion to guide you..!!”
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“I had to take a leaf out of her book. Smile to her face, but hold a knife to her back.”
― The Woman He Left Behind
― The Woman He Left Behind
“Although she was no longer weeping and appeared remarkably composed, I knew that behind that facade, someone was breaking inside. Piece by piece, she was falling apart, silently, like leaves dropping from trees in autumn.”
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“One could see that he was fearfully bored, but that he was valiantly keeping up the part of the man perfectly happy and enjoying himself.”
― The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
― The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
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