I will never pass for a perfect bride, or a perfect daughter. Can it be I'm not meant to play this part? – Mulan0
Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know? – Mulan0
Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I've tried. When will my reflection show who I am inside? – Mulan0
If you really want to know the truth, it's this: I don't even know what I was running for – I guess I just felt like it. – Holden Caulfield0
I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it. – Holden Caulfield0
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. – Holden Caulfield0
I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact. – Holden Caulfield0
It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. – Holden Caulfield0
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. – Jem Finch0
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. – Scout Finch0
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Basil Hallward0
The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness. – Narrator0
Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum.0
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. – Paul D0
Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with the others, she had claimed herself. Now she claimed every part of it.0
She is the one; she is the one I need. You are my sister. You are my daughter. You are my face; you are me.0
He was a funny-looking child who became a funny-looking youth — tall and weak, and shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola.0
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Narrator0
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.0