Brenda Walker

“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself. ”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What