Jesse Andrews Quotes

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.

I'm sufficiently complex that there's no one truth about me.

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity.

There is more that meets the eye, I see the soul that is inside.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.