Amy Reads Almost Everything

“What is my identity, even? What the fuck is that? How would I know? I've pretended to be other people my whole life, my whole childhood and adolescence and young adulthood. The years that you're supposed to spend finding yourself, I was spending pretending to be other people.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I believe we find our sense of stability, our place in life, by participating in society, by coming to belong somewhere and taking on the title of that position - mother, teacher, doctor. Not belonging anywhere, not having a title of some sort, means, in effect, that you're not really a member of society.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“My body bucks and breaks beneath my hand; it is its own animal, with its own limits, that I have not cared to mind. It betrays me with its wants and needs, its pains and limitations, and I am furious to be tethered in this way. I thought us prisoners together, but perhaps we are enemies, working tirelessly to move in opposite directions.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone