“What memory is made of I cannot say; my body, at least, is made of atoms on loan from the earth. How implausible, that these atoms should have gathered to form this I, this envelope of skin that walks about.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“Afraid of dying, yes, but even more of not having lived, afraid of passing my days in a stupor, afraid of squandering my moment in the light.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“I also have another quality, and that is an unshakable hunger to know who I am, where I am, and into what sort of cosmos I have been so briefly and astonishingly sprung.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“I'm me. I'm a person and this is who I am. I'm not stuck in anybody's body. It's just who I am as a human being. My brain is much more female than it is male. It's hard for people to understand that. But that's what my soul is.”— Caitlyn Jenner, thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
“I am not my sexual orientation. I am not my gender. I am a human being, defined by my own intelligence and growth and evolution.”— Nina Sever, ninasever.tumblr.com
“Our past is what molds us into the person we are today. It does not define us.”— Imania Margria, amazon.com
“People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.”— Lisa Firestone, amazon.com
“None of us have simple stories. We are as complex as all of the things that have been done to us.”— Alok Vaid Menon, facebook.com
“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“Better to have been a dickhead and seen it, than be a cunt all your life and not know it.”— Kate Tempest, amazon.com
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“To know what a person has done and to know who a person is, are very different things.”— Hannah Kent, amazon.com
“This is the new world and in it you can be whoever the fuck you want.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”— Wendy Mass, amazon.com