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“Sometimes I feel that I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in an epic movie.”
“It was things like that I remembered about Ruby, the incongruity, the struggle to find herself.No matter what she wore though she was always Ruby, always herself.”
“I'm a name and a question.”
“He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache is a pose. Yet, he hams this unpredictable matey belligerence, this curiously Midlands atti...”
“But since Kurdistan did not, as such, exist; since it was an imaginary land, stretching over scraggy mountains and deep valleys in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria; since they were as landless as the P...”
“...we are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us...”
“Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.”
“A tattoo does that, it makes you think about your body like it's this special suit that you can put on or take off whenever you want and a new name if it's cool enough does the same thing. To have ...”
“What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?”
“It wasnt just heartbreaking but it broke my identity! All that anguish that was deep hidden in me because rejections from family and friends started to pour out like a current in the sea that would...”
“For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.”
“If you enjoy sex or explore aspects of your sexual identity using technology, that experience should belong to you. Only you should get to decide whether it was a good or bad thing to do.”
“All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be pl...”
“This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldnt understand what they meant for a long, long time.”
“Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.”
“When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was imagining alternative-universe versions of myself. Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for m...”
“Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was n...”
“Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?”
“Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?”
“Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her.”
