Narrating Self Quotes

“Our narrating self would much prefer to continue suffering in the future, just so it won't have to admit that our past suffering was devoid of all meaning. Eventually, if we want to come clean about past mistakes, our narrating self must invent some twist in the plot that will infuse these mistakes with meaning.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“She was a story, not an epilogue. And if she chose to narrate her own life one word at a time as she descended the stairs to meet her newest arrival, that wasn’t hurting anyone.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway