Birth Quote by Glen Duncan

“It felt possible--though I know this is absurd--that the use of my own body, the only thing I really owned, had somehow been repossessed.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Why coerce when you can contract ?”

— Nalini Singh

“I wasn't sure what I had just agreed to, or what was waiting for me around the next bend. What I did know, could…

— Jay Crownover

“This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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

“It’s one thing to be lost in a world that’s not your own. Another thing entirely to know you’ve been replaced in yours.”

— Blake Crouch

“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It amazes me what compromises we happily live with. We limp along, patching up, improvising.”

— William Boyd

“And if you ruin it I own your soul.”

— Kelly Creagh

“I showed up, shut up, and made it work. But it felt like compromise. And if you ask me, compromise feels like amputation.”

— Tiffany Debartolo

“Now I have to lie, especially to myself. But how can you understand, when I don't myself. I've never understood anything about it, except…

— Eugene O'Neill

“The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.”

— S.R. Hardy