Jen’s Reviews > The Air You Breathe > Status Update
Jen
is on page 214 of 449
“From the very beginning of our lives we must define ourselves As boys or girls. Later, we become good students or bad, artists or business people, pretty or homely. We call ourselves the lawyers or shop clerks or musicians or singers. We turn into husbands or wives. Each new definition stacks itself on top of all of the previous ones. And suddenly, you are smothered under the weight of them.
— Aug 16, 2018 12:48PM
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Jen
is on page 45 of 449
“If passion is deeply entwined with uncertainty, then a mother’s love is the opposite: it never wavers, never depends on performance, never requires an equal amount of love in return. You have the luxury of brushing off a mother’s love, knowing your scorn or indifference will never make it go away. It is like air — you can forget it exists, and that it is essential to your life.”
— Aug 13, 2018 08:33PM
Jen
is on page 43 of 449
“When we are young, we give ourselves completely. We allow our first friends or first lovers or first songs inside us, to become a part of our unformed being, without ever thinking of the consequences, or of their permanence within us. This is one of the beauties of youth, and one of its burdens.”
— Aug 13, 2018 08:31PM