“Your tiredness is your resistance to who you are, the person you actually want to be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“If there's so much I must be, can't I still just be me, the way I am?”— Michelle Horn, Young Kiara, amazon.com
“You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba. You are more than what you have become.”— James Earl Jones, Mufasa, amazon.com
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Rihanna and Cardi B have that idgaf attitude, like ‘I am who I am & you will deal’ which is why I fuck with them so heavy”— therealmoonchild, therealmoonchild.tumblr.com
“People like me––gay people, undocumented people, undocumented gay people––are not ‘coming out.’ We’re just letting you in, and, in the process, asking you to find yourselves in us.”— Jose Antonio Vargas, emergingus.com