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“Because who you are is just the stories you tell yourself about yourself, and the intersection of all the hurts you've ever had and how you survived them.”

Book:A Choir of Lies

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“But those stories aren't important to my story, and that's what I'm trying to muddle through right now—what I'm going to do, and where I'm going to go. And, most difficult of all, who I'm going to be—because who you are is just the stories you tell yourself about yourself, and the intersection of all the hurts you've ever had and how you survived them.”

Self

Book:A Choir of Lies

Source: A Choir of Lies

“Be self-contained and that is to say without adoration without acknowledgement without anyone ever saying anything you have to know!”

Self Self Esteem Self Love Self Realization Thyself

Author:Syed Sharukh

“omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum (all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)”

Self Nature Reflection Animals

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“I don't know if I believe this but that's what it felt like: As if we were to people mining one body, and in doing so, merged, until no corner was left saying I.”

Love Self Romance Sex Identity

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“His dear face, dear to her, dearer still. how could she love his face more for its damage? What kind of person saw someone's suffering and felt her heart crack open even wider, even more sweetly than before? There was something wrong with her. It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful.”

Romance Sweet Beautiful People Beautiful Writing

Book:The Winner's Crime

Source: The Winner's Crime

“May I have the courage to be who I say I am.”

Self Courage Affirmation Mantra

Book:On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

Source: On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

“The Ada could look back on her life and see, like clones, several of her standing there in a line. This terrified her, because if there were so many of her, then which one was she? Were they false and her current self real, or was her current self false and it was one of the others, lost in the line, who was the real Ada?”

Self

Book:Freshwater

Source: Freshwater

“The greatest cause involves the decision not to make myself the greatest cause.”

Self Sacrifice Selfish Surrender Greedy Self Centered Cause Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We'll find peace everywhere if we have peace within ourselves!”

Self Peace Peaceful

Author:Habib Bilal

“You were... Well, you were who you were.' 'We're all that,' says Claudia. 'It's something one has to overcome.”

Self Personality

Book:Moon Tiger

Source: Moon Tiger

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