knowing who you are Quotes

“Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. So on with the game.”

“Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. So on with the game.”

“Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be.”

“We drag our past behind us like a weight, still shackled, but far enough back that we never have to see, never have to openly acknowledge who we once were.”

“The way I write is who I am, or have become.”

“We are who we are, and we’re good with it. I figured the others felt the same way. Who cares what the popular kids think of us? Was I ever wrong about that! As soon as someone from the A-list showed even the slightest interest in video club, we all went weak in the knees and lined up to love him.”

“I mean who do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom? You’re no saint, Roland!”

“I am not one person; I am many people; I do not altogether know who I am.”

“Let them take everything. They cannot take who we are.”

“I want to be anyone but the person I am.”

“The truth is—and how long it has been true, I’m not sure, but it was true in my generation and it is true of girls growing up today—an American woman no longer has a private image to tell her who she is, or can be, or wants to be.”

“There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she’d carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was.”

“She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.”

“I want you to know it’s okay to be upset. You’re not a mess because you have messy feelings.”