Sheena

“I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Tara Westover, Educated