
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 113
Variant: I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/07/kathleen.hanna.documentary/, CNN (2011).
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous