““My mother relates to the world through a permeable membrane. She can imagine herself in a different life and has recast herself many times. As I have. It is a way to move through the world driven equally by hope and fear. We who fear abandonment are often the most capable of leaving. We build lives out of moveable pieces. Out of ourselves. It is a creative way to live, both variable and resilient, if sometimes lonely.””
![“[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within…” quote by Anita Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e03/anita-brookner-8550_fear_nobody-grows-up-everyone-carries-around_2166554.jpg)
![“[The] persevering steadiness of my mother, her belief in seeing things through, and her great ability to love and learn, listen and change, helped keep me alive through all the years of pain and nightmare that were to come. She could not have known how difficult it would be to deal with madness…” quote by Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d75/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_ability-to-love_the-persevering-steadiness-of-my-mother_3178050.jpg)
![“I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.” quote by Billy Joel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/28d/billy-joel-1000_different_i-was-listening-to-stuff-and-i-realized_70772.jpg)
