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“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

“And it was that, the beyond-grief, the sealing-up of a mind still expected to produce order and plans, which she dreaded.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“I think feeling it, letting myself risk love and letting myself be loved, is one of the biggest challenges left for me.”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss