I Am You Quotes

“But if you've never cared enduringly for another, than I can't suppose you know the ways love can also be stingy and mean.”
― Victoria Redel, I Am You

“Who among us comes through life without regret? Without apology? How often do we create the fire we must step into and hopefully through? And if we are lucky emerge charred, we must then survive coarsely scarred and patched. And still longing. That's love. Difficult to reckon that something so burnt and crusted with anger and hurt can still be called love.”
― Victoria Redel, I Am You

“I was so many things and none of them. Sometimes it made me unsteady. What did it mean to know my place, or to make my place? And what was our place—Maria's and mine?”
― Victoria Redel, I Am You

“...Anyway I hate nature,' she said. It was one of her favorite outrageous claims. That she detested the mess of nature. That it was always preferable to paint lily or wild rose in the studio. The freedom to create a bouquet of flowers that bloomed in different months was her justification. The second was that an arrangement and vase implied a human presence even if not visible in the painting. To her that particular human, who didn't appear on canvas, was her true subject.”
― Victoria Redel, I Am You

“This is life. Once it was hers. Then it was ours. Now it is mine.”
― Victoria Redel, I Am You