Facade Quotes

it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.

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

Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

You scream it in everything you do. You’re holding on to what happened because you think that’s all you have.”
“It is all I have.”
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