Prolonged Quote by Mira Lyn Kelly

“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person…

— Shannon Celebi

“But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I…

— Nancy Werlin

“It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one…

— Margaret Atwood

“I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway.…

— Katherine Center

“we all have opportunities—not necessarily to become whatever we want, but to become someone, the person we were meant to be.”

— Jeff Goins

“The wanting was quickly becoming aching. I didn’t want to be like this anymore; constantly thinking about and wanting someone that I couldn’t have…

— Suzanne Wright

“I knew what wanting to be someone else was like. I knew what wanting to be anyone else was like. It was a huge…

— Nicole Williams

“He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.”

— Lev Shestov

“People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.”

— Leila Sales

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“. If that which was figured out long ago was the ultimate, then there would be no reason for your existence today.”

— Esther Hicks

“She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be…

— Ann Brashares