Frederic

“What makes the soul who it is, if not the choices the person makes while he’s alive?”
― Dara Horn, The World to Come

“He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyond the prejudice which protects us, the habit which gives us shape. He wants them to know both degradation and sainthood, the one without humiliation, the other without ignorance.”
― James Salter

“We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.”
― Robert Stone, Journalism: The Democratic Craft

“Memory, the whole lying opera of it, is killing me now.”
― Barry Hannah, Airships