You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta.
“You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all...”
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
“The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.”
“Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning ...”
“My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us......”
“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”
“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”
“The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.”