Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“I took a deep breath, opened my eyes, and looked at myself for the first time in a long time. Only, I did not…

— Mandy Ingber

“I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.”

— Joan Didion

“I'd spent a lifetime becoming a mirror that just reflected back the person others wanted to see, but she didn't want anything. So I…

— Cristin Terrill

“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn’t know…

— Milan Kundera

“never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.”

— George Saunders

“I did not pretend to be a mortal. I showed my lambent, yellow eyes at every turn. None of it made a difference. I…

— Madeline Miller

“No. Since I first saw you. Since I first laid eyes on you and felt sorry for every beautiful thing that was made no…

— Penny Reid

“For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how…

— Roxane Gay

“Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds, while you were completely present, was that beauty or that sacredness there.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more…

— Masuji Ibuse

“The only thing pretty about me is this godforsaken face. Everything else is rotted and ugly.”

— Caitlin Crews

“He was one of the few people who had spoken to me as though his words were not rocks and I was not glass.”

— Meredith Norton