“If you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would th…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”— Guy de Maupassant, goodreads.com
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”— Maya Angelou, businessinsider.com
“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”— Ruta Sepetys, amazon.com
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?”— Sherryl Woods, amazon.com
“I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armour because I’m too sensitive.”— Marlon Brando, huffingtonpost.com