History Quotes / StepfordSmiler

Yeah it makes me smile\\
At worst I feel bad for a while\

Yeah I go ahead and smile''

->"[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.]"

-->-- '''[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]]''', ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''

->''"Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head."''
-->-- '''Film/FightClub'''

->'''Ikeda:''' You're forcing it.\\
'''Yoshida:''' Don't say that. We must pretend we're happy. It's scary if another disaster strikes again.
-->-- ''Film/PoisonBerryInMyBrain''

-->--"Nothing", ''The Script''

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

-->-- "Bottles", from ''VisualNovel/DokiDokILiteratureClub''

-->--'''Creator/JackKerouac'''

-->--'''Dexter Morgan''' in ''[[Literature/{{Dexter}} Dearly Devoted Dexter]]'' by Jeff Lindsay

-->--'''Magnus Bane''' ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles''

-->--'''''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'''''

-->--''[[Literature/CharlieParkerSeries The Unquiet]]''

-->--''[[Literature/DifferentSeasons Apt Pupil]]''

-->--''Paperbacks From Hell,'' by Grady Hendrix

-->--'''Creator/ArthurConanDoyle''', ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles''

-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #1: The Invasion''

-->--'''Yoona-939,''' ''Literature/CloudAtlas''

-->--''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand''

->''We got the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal bubble-headed-bleach-blond]]\\

->''Clovette's optimism is daunting. She wields her joy like a hammer.''
-->--''VideoGame/CultistSimulator''

-> '''Diego''': You look sad today.
-> '''Manny''': Actually, I'm sad every day. I just don't have the energy to hide it today.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/IceAge''

->"I interrupt her. '[[BlatantLies I'm ok Mads. Really. You don't have to worry.]]' I flash her the old grin and [[CharacterTics finger guns]]. I've done it so many times on camera when I was sick or tired that I don't think even Maddie can see my heart isn't really in it this time. At least I hope not."

->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.

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

->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 [[BadDreams 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.\\

-->--'''Queen Elsa''' preparing for the day, ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''

-->-- '''[[BigGood All-Might]]''', ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia''

'''Kenneth:''' Well, I'll tell you my secret sir! [[MoodWhiplash I lie to myself]]. Every day, when I wake up, I say "everything's gonna be ookay," ''but I'm lying''. And I don't know how much longer I can do it. (pained squeak as smile returns) Have a swell night, sir!

-->-- '''Laughing Octopus''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''