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“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”
― Educated
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Educated
“Pain expanded my heart.”
― Heart Berries
― Heart Berries
“I think self-esteem is a white invention to further separate one person from another. It asks people to assess their values and implies people have worth. It seems like identity capitalism.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
“To ascend there must be a dark, a descent.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
“My therapists didn’t pity me, not the good ones; they made me strip myself of pandering, manipulation, presentation—they wanted the truth more desperately than I did, and then they wanted me to speak it—live it every moment. I feel like writing is that way. Writing can be hard therapy.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
Laura Gwilliam’s 2025 Year in Books
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