I'd stopped trying to find Matilda, because I realized she'd been inside me the whole time. She was the girl I'd been dreaming about since I was three. I didn't become her. I just finally let her out.
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We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a "narrative," and that this narrative is us, our identities. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique.
Oliver Sacks
I have a theory that people recommend books that flatter the version of themselves they want to present, not the one they actually finished. I've seen too many friends pretend to be knee-deep into some boring academic text when what they want, and what they'd be better off with, is a trashy beach read.
Sanchita LaMore
We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust — In Search of Lost Time