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“A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Sometimes I wonder if I have really been the same person my whole life. I stare at the picture, and think: Is that really me? I have this bizarre feeling like I was a different person at every other stage of my life. I feel so removed from myself then. Sometimes I feel like I was a different person a month ago. A day. Five minutes. Now.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman