The Imprint Quotes

“Many of us go through life never questioning the direction we’re headed. We charge forth, convinced that whatever path we’re on was one of our own choosing. But if you put effort into dissecting the map, into looking at what hidden influences might drive your actions, you’re able to find something truly exceptional. You can, quite literally, change your stars.”
― Crystal Oakman, The Imprint: The unintended inheritance that's shaping your life

“You are not who you think you are.
There are things buried inside you that whisper. They give you words you speak as your own, and they nudge you, lead you, seduce you into thoughts they want you to have. You have formed decisions from their memories and acted from their grievances. They are ghosts that live within you, peeking out from your eyes. They squat in your skin, clouding and morphing what you think, what you see, what you feel.
You are, quite simply, not just you. Rather, you are a haphazard, haunted mosaic of a hundred shards of glass. A physical treasure box of experienced lifetimes. A sea of souls trapped in flesh.
The fragmented remains of others past live within you. And if you aren’t careful, like a puppeteer to a marionette, they will twitch, and you will move.”
― Crystal Oakman, The Imprint: The unintended inheritance that's shaping your life