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> [“Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/who-s-to-say-we-can-t-have-many-loves-and-many-identities-we-can-hold/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

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## More by Elizabeth Hay

> [“You see the same plain landscape day after day, and then one day, perhaps it's the play of light or the time of year,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/you-see-the-same-plain-landscape-day-after-day-and-then-one-day/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes us by.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/what-we-lose-is-any-sense-that-life-is-alive-she-thought-the-days/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“You're brave to have driven all this way." Gwen considered for a moment whether this made her brave. In truth, she was always afraid,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/you-re-brave-to-have-driven-all-this-way-gwen-considered-for-a-moment/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed everything away.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/forgiveness-she-was-thinking-was-in-some-terrible-overeager-way-a/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“Jim enjoyed watching people take sides. It increased the drama and he loved the drama. Yet it worried him too, since he wanted people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/jim-enjoyed-watching-people-take-sides-it-increased-the-drama-and-he/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/the-phrase-that-came-to-her-mind-was-the-long-and-sudden-of-i-we-go/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/who-s-to-say-we-can-t-have-many-loves-and-many-identities-we-can-hold/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [ “Oh Harry," \[Gwen\] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person." What kind of person, he wanted to know. "Someone," she said… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/oh-harry-gwen-said-i-wish-i-were-a-different-kind-of-person-what-kind/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/you-stand-next-to-the-sea-and-you-re-in-touch-with-all-your-longings/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/a-child-lies-like-a-grey-pebble-on-the-shore-until-a-certain-teacher/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/that-s-always-the-question-how-to-defend-yourself-without-being-nasty/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“You stay loyal to what increasingly disappoints you. It happens all the time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/you-stay-loyal-to-what-increasingly-disappoints-you-it-happens-all/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“This is the way of long and empty roads: nearly forgotten things surface and singing voices improve.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/this-is-the-way-of-long-and-empty-roads-nearly-forgotten-things/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/and-when-is-it-ever-convincing-the-belief-others-have-in-your/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

> [“I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hay/i-usually-describe-my-father-as-a-man-given-to-impenetrable-solitude/)

[Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hay/)

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