Self identity Quote by Colum McCann

“Once she was behind, how could she catch up?”

— Celeste Ng

“She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles,…

— Leigh Bardugo

“The woman went on. She had not looked back. She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, deliberate, unhurried, and tireless as…

— William Faulkner

“She believed she could. She did it, and never looked back.”

— Germany Kent

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

“She lost herself in infinite dismay when she thought of the magnitude of his deception.”

— Henry James

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon

“What was she, after all, except the memory of all she had done, telling her the sort of person she was and guiding her…

— R.A. MacAvoy

“And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.”

— Robyn Schneider

“and suddenly she tired of behaving as she ought.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“...she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this…

— Colm Tóibín

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout