The Mask Quotes

“The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

“I teetered on the verge of tears but laughed instead.”
― lara whitcomb

“The mask ,one of the best stories in the collection,How much it is a difficult trip between illusion and fraud by love”
― Abeer Almadawy عبير المعداوي, During Our Voyeurism

“These things are good: ice cream and cake, a ride on a Harley, seeing monkeys in the trees, the rain on my tongue, and the sun shining on my face. These things are a drag: dust in my hair, holes in my shoes, no money in my pocket, and the sun shining on my face.”
― Rocky Dennis

“Sometimes the mask isn’t to hide pain—it’s to quiet the joy, the love, the truth too loud for the room.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“You were the last person to see me before I put on the mask.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“There is something freeing about being a little difficult to define.

When people ask you the inevitable, boring question—'So, what do you do?’

and you don't have a neat sentence ready,

You are no longer a noun; you are a verb.

You are moving, eating, grieving, seeing.

You’re too F*CKING loud, too F*CKING broken.

You are a collection of scars and stories that don't fit on a business card.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”