Time Quote by Elizabeth Bear

“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.”

— David Foenkinos

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

— Kate Chopin

“Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself--except…

— Willa Cather

“In the sudden change that had come over her heart she no longer recognized herself”

— Émile Zola

“Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she’d never asked for.”

— Dinah Jefferies

“...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.”

— Amanda Coplin

“She realized now that her life wasn’t just about who she was, but about who she would become.”

— Robert Beatty

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design,…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living,…

— Virginia Wolf

“I loved her so much, but she vanished from my life. She didn’t just suddenly disappear, but she slowly began losing her opacity until…

— Jarod Kintz

“But mostly she was tired of being cut off from the part of herself that existed in the ambient. She would never be whole,…

— J.D. Lakey