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“Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two would come to seem like a tiny neighborhood where you couldn't decide which house was yours. Which felt important when you were high above, you thought, in the foothills, but not so much at the truer remove of a continent, where the lives you'd lived and the places you'd come from, dwindled to a single point on the horizon, in the incorrigibly distant past.”

Identity Sad Distance Remove Simile The Past City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.”

People Identity Alone Solitary Introvert Authentic Self City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg Lone Wolf The Real You

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.”

Change Identity Metaphor Mask City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.”

Love Identity Unconditional Love Suffocating City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery—a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.”

Identity College Depression Suicide Misery Suicidal City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know—the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table—which you, specifically, is the real one?”

Identity Past And Present City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire