Quotes about Authenticity
You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.
- Alice Hoffman
I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.
- Alice Hoffman
Now Franny understood that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.
- Alice Hoffman
Shelby is brutally honest. That's why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can't have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.
- Alice Hoffman
Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.
- Alice Hoffman
I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.
- Alice Hoffman
Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.
- Alice Hoffman
that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold.
- Alice Hoffman
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
- Alice Hoffman
I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.
- Alice Hoffman
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen
- Alice Walker
She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.
- Alice Walker