History Quotes / StepfordSmiler

->Even those who never frown eventually break down

->With a smile, I'm dying inside \ But I know, I'll be just fine

-->--'''Music/MarilynManson''', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6V5YOUODI Slutgarden]]''

-->-- {{Being Human}}

-> With a smile, I'm dying inside \ But I know, I'll be just fine
-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDARNA6FBk Just the Thing ]]- ''Paul Mac''

What I can't explain anyway\\

->Ruby, on the other hand, acts like she doesn’t come back to the dorm looking pensive on most nights, leaves and flower petals stuck to her hair; acts like she doesn’t shift closer to you in bed on others. Ruby acts like what happens past midnight happens on a different plane, another reality even, like she wants to keep the part of her that wolfs down cookies and swings around gun-scythes with pinpoint precision and playfulness separate from the part of her that shuffles to bed with you during the early morning hours.

Beneath our feat and long the mile;\\

->"We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, Oh great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feat and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,

-->--Music/EmilieAutumn, "Blackbird Sonnets, III", ''Your Sugar Sits Untouched''

->How is it that I smile when I am sad?\\
From what resource do I derive this strength?
-->--Music/EmilieAutumn, "Blackbird Sonnets, III", ''Your Sugar Sits Untouched''

->''I won't scream in my head''
->''And let it isolate me''
-->-- "I Won't Be Left", by Tegan and Sara

->Some of your friends are surprised by how excitable and confident you seem, and you don’t blame them at all. That’s not you. You try to force yourself to be as happy as you possibly can all the time, but that’s only a distraction. [[EldritchAbomination She’s]] still there in your head, still talking to you. Telling you how weak you are. How you’re not good enough. How you’ve never been good enough for anything. How you won’t win this one. You can’t win this one. You’ve never won anything in your life. You know none of it’s true, but that doesn’t stop you from worrying, a nervous feeling eating away at you. What if you aren’t good enough for this? What if you can’t win? After all, she knows you as well as you know yourself.
-->-- The fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/776503 Fronting]]'''s [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interpretation]] of [[HomeStuck Feferi Peixes]]

->“I think he still blamed himself,” she says in the blandest tone, “even though I told him I was okay.”
->“He does that sometimes,” you agree. “But I don't think you were really okay, and even though you lied to yourself, I think you couldn't lie to him.”
->She turns to look at you, her face as blank and expressionless as her empty eye sockets.
->“But I'm okay,” she says, her voice still lacking inflection. “[[MadnessMantra I was okay. I'm okay,]]” she repeats, and blinks rapidly.
->You brush a lock of hair back from her face, and the contact surprises her, even though you had your hand on your shoulder just a minute ago.
->“Are you really, though?” you ask kindly, and she hiccups. Fat, reddish tears start rolling down her cheeks.
-->-- '''[[HomeStuck Aradia Megido]]''', in the fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/426732/chapters/896135 Conciliatory Shenanigans]]''

->Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain.

->Some of your friends are surprised by how excitable and confident you seem, and you don’t blame them at all. That’s not you. You try to force yourself to be as happy as you possibly can all the time, but that’s only a distraction. [[EldritchAbominationShe’s]] still there in your head, still talking to you. Telling you how weak you are. How you’re not good enough. How you’ve never been good enough for anything. How you won’t win this one. You can’t win this one. You’ve never won anything in your life. You know none of it’s true, but that doesn’t stop you from worrying, a nervous feeling eating away at you. What if you aren’t good enough for this? What if you can’t win? After all, she knows you as well as you know yourself.

-->-- ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/970087 There's a hole in my soul]]'', an {{RWBY}} fanfic

->'''Hal:''' My God, Annie. Your's is even better than mine.

It’s worrying.
It’s worrying and you understand why she does it.

->''won't scream in my head
->d let it isolate me

-> ''Inside my heart is breaking\\
My makeup may be flaking\\
But my smile still stays on.''
-->-- Music/{{Queen}}, "The Show Must Go On"

-->-- '''LilyAllen''': ''Smile''

---> "Can't Decide," BlackFlag

-->-- '''FightClub'''

-->-- BritneySpears, "Lucky"

-->--[[TaylorSwift Taylor Swift]], ''Tied Together With A Smile''

-->--''Fanfic/TheSacredAndTheProfane''.

-> ''[[Manga/DeathNote Light]] pulled himself up to the counter, putting on his, '[[CuteAndPsycho I'm completely normal and if you don't believe me]], IllKillYou,' façade.''
-->--''Fanfic/TheFaceless''

-->--'''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG7DoUR93yk "Leave a Scar"]]''', ''Music/MarilynManson''

-->--''{{FanFic/Solitude}}''

->Hold on, baby you're losing it\\
The water's high, you're jumping into it\\
And letting go\\
and no one knows\\
\\
That you cry, but you don't tell anyone\\
That you might not be [[PuritySue the golden one]]\\
[[TitleDrop And you're tied together with a smile]] but you're coming undone\\
-->--[[TaylorSwift Taylor Swift]], ''Tied Together With A Smile''

-> With a smile, I'm dying inside \ But I know, I'll be just fine
-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDARNA6FBk Just the Thing ]]- ''Paul Mac''

-->Inside, my heart is breaking\\
My makeup may be flaking\\
But my smile still stays on...
---> "The Show Must Go On," {{Queen}}

-> What Megaman and my brothers don't know, is this flash is all for show
->'Cause inside, there's nothing there, and there's nothing to me,
-> I'm empty, and I'm hollow...
-->-- '''Flashman''' ''[[TheMegas Blue Like You]]''

-> You was raised without a daddy,
-> You're really not happy,
-> You only smile to cover the rain...
-->-- '''[=GemStones=]''', ''Skeletons''

-> You said it made you happy when I smiled, didn't you? But really... I was afraid. I was always afraid.
-->-- '''Oerba Dia Vanille''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''.

-> Although I laugh and I act like a clown,\\
Beneath this mask, I am wearing a frown.
-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "I'm a Loser"

-> Lying tears hurt others; lying smiles hurt only oneself.
-->-- [[MysteriousWaif C.C.]], ''Anime/CodeGeass''

->"Buried deep as you can dig inside yourself, hidden in the public eye
->such a stellar monument to loneliness.
->Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes,
->perfect makeup, but you're barely scraping by.
-->-- '''Music/DashboardConfessional''', ''The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most''

->Frigga appeared the perfect caregiver. She walked through the castle, gave comfort where it was needed, and did not let her face slip.
-->--'''Narration''', "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7156507/1/Enduring Enduring]]", a ''Film/{{Thor}}'' fanfic

->Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain.
-->-- '''Leo Valdez''' (narration), ''TheHeroesOfOlympus''

-> At first when I see you cry/it makes me smile/yeah it makes me smile/at worst I feel bad for a while/but then I just smile/Yeah I go ahead and smile.
-->-- '''LilyAllen''': ''Smile''

->No, Orson Hodge isn't exactly the guy I'd have picked to head my family, but I'll give him one thing... he's got the smile down cold.
-->-- '''Rex Van de Kamp''', ''Series/DesperateHousewives''

-> No, no... I shouldn't be laughing. Nothing's funny.
-->-- ''Laughing Octopus'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''

->"[The [[spoiler:[[GenkiGirl Misha]]]] you know is different from the one I think of, when I think of the time we first met. Even though I think she looks better cheerful and smiling, that isn't how she typically is.]"
-->-- ''Shizune Hakamichi'', ''KatawaShoujo''

-> [Littlefinger's] eyes did not smile when his mouth did.
-->-- '''Sansa Stark''' in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin

->'''Hal:''' My God, Annie. Your's is even better than mine.
->'''Annie:''' My what?
->'''Hal:''' Your mask.
-->-- {{Being Human}}

->"If I sound pleased about [Pandora going to hell under Handsome Jack], its only because my creators made this my default tone of voice. I'm actually quite depressed!"
-->-- '''Claptrap''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''

->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Sumire]]''': As always... your salesman smile is absolutely cruel..
->'''Teru''': Oh...? You know, there's quite a few people I'm actually grateful to. I wasn't lying...
->'''Sumire''': Right, but it's just too different from your normal self.
-->-- ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', after Teru puts on a cheerful and polite face at a press conference.

-->-- '''DashboardConfessional''', ''The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most''