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“Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can't TOUCH those feelings. Its like they belonged to someone else. Someone you don't even know. I'm aware, in an intellectual way. That I felt all those things about him, but this emotions are far away now.
What's so strange to me is that I can't even force my heart back to that place where I felt that all consuming passion. That makes me feel distant from myself. Who WAS I then? Will I ever be able to get back to that place? Reading the letters again made me wonder: Which is the real me? The one who saw the world in that emotionally saturated way, or the me who sees it the way I do now?”
― Bill Shapiro, Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See

“As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.”
― Josie Sigler, The Galaxie and Other Rides

“But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man’s journey towards his future.”
― Madeline Claire Franklin

“We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker