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“My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from…

— Ben Lerner

“He would understand, later, that there is a moment when your life must become your own; you must claim it from all the other…

— Anne Michaels

“I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that…

— Theresa Smith

“Possibility. Was that all that it took to feel alive? Could it be that it wasn’t getting the thing you desire itself but the…

— Lise McClendon

“I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn’t imagine.”

— Donna Tartt

“That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm not sure…

— Ryū Murakami

“at points in my life, I’ve lost everything. This house, my other homes, the cars, planes . . . they’re my possessions, but anyone could own…

— Jeaniene Frost

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly…

— James Lileks

“Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives.We own our thoughts, but everything else is borrowed. Everything.”

— Deborah Ellis

“We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded.”

— Tetsuo Miura

“I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago…

— Alice Walker