“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.”
“I am not the person I was born. Neither are you … Perhaps we feel as if we know one another well when we know several facets of that person.”
“Becoming yourself is not a growth process but a surrender of possibilities that we learn to regard as egregious, unbecoming. ‘Being yourself’ is inherently limiting … Social media offer a single profile for our singular identity, but our consciousness comprises multiple forms of identity simultaneously …”
“I am made and remade continuously. Different people draw different words from me.”
“I can’t be a singular expression of myself, there’s too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many troubles, too many journeys, too many mountains, too many rivers, so many.”
“When I show myself in a different light, I do not make a pretense. Rather I bare a different aspect to the world than they have seen before.”
“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.”
“Instead of separating your behaviors and choices into good and bad categories, you need to learn how to let yourself be a human of many seasons. Respect your natural ebb and flow.”
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
Richard Siken, “Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light” - Heidi Priebe, This is Me Letting You Go - Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate - Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Rob Horning, “Social Media Is Not Self-Expression” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves - Solange Knowles, “Can I Hold the Mic” - Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate - James Baldwin, “Nothing Personal” - Hélène Cixous, Coming to Writing - Ask Polly, “I’m Starting a New Life, But There’s So Much Pressure to Get It Right!” - Madeline Miller, Circe.