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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

“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

“After all, I absorb the world around me, and that’s changing all the time. Just as all the water that was in my body last time we met has now been replaced with new water, the things that make up me have changed too.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“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