“We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.”
“...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.”
“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.”
“You lose a certain type of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness.”
“I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.”
“Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.”