"She knows too well what it's like to……" — Christina Baker Kline

"She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside."

— Christina Baker Kline

Broken Quotes Broken Inside Quotes Come Quotes Come Naturally Quotes Display Quotes Doe Quotes Down Quotes Else Quotes Else Even Quotes Emotion Quotes Empathy Quotes Everyone Quotes Everyone Else Quotes Expression Quotes Fake Quotes Feel Quotes Feel Numb Quotes Feels Quotes Force Quotes Inclinations Quotes Inside Quotes Knows Quotes Learn Quotes Like Everyone Quotes Look Quotes Look Like Quotes Looks Quotes Lucky Quotes Natural Quotes Natural Inclinations Quotes Naturally Quotes Numb Quotes Pass Quotes Pretend Quotes Really Quotes Really Feel Quotes She Knows Quotes Smile Quotes Smile When Quotes Tamp Quotes Too Quotes Wells Quotes You Feel Quotes You Learn Quotes Your Natural Quotes

12 Quotes by Christina Baker Kline

Christina Baker Kline has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 12 quotes by Christina Baker Kline »

More Broken Quotes

This quote is filed under Broken Quotes, one of 4,635 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of… — Joe Baca
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
I've had my heart broken one too many times. — Tyra Banks
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families… — Gary Bauer
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the… — Simone de Beauvoir
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,… — Xavier Becerra
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right… — Henry Ward Beecher
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better,… — Gael Garcia Bernal
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. — Yogi Berra

See all 4,635 Broken Quotes »