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“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings.”
― E. Y. Harburg

“You don't owe the people some better version of yourself. In fact, you owe this world nothing.”
― Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

“But that was the problem with the old me, I was coming to realize. She'd accepted that behaving correctly meant not being happy, because that was the way the world worked. She hadn't asked enough - of life, or of herself.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens