Lauren Strunk

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility