In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.
“The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about tha...”
“We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.”
“Stand firm as surefooted as deer.”
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”