"She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face."

Identity, Regret, Truth, Power, Today

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"She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Identity, Self, Reflection, Metaphor

"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Identity, Self, Reflection, Knowledge, Affection

"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Identity, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, Effectiveness, Success, Purpose

"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Identity, Pain, Survival, Memory

"You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Identity, Truth, Symbol, Wisdom, Power

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Identity, Houses, Property

"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Identity, Uniqueness, Love, Self, Presence

"Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"The last good time always comes."

Life

"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."

Wisdom

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."

Wisdom

"He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger's name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain."

Life

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

Success

"He knew a great deal of the Bible already, and he knew the Bible believed in all sorts of weird stuff. According to the Bible, God Himself was at least one-third Ghost, and that was just the beginning. You could tell the Bible believed in demons, because Jesus threw a bunch of them out of this guy. Real chuckalicious ones, too. When Jesus asked the guy who had them what his name was, the demons answered and told Him to go join the Foreign Legion. Or something like that."

Religion

"Go with your bad self."

Life

"It's a hard life if you don't weaken."

Life

"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

Fiction

"Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any."

Confidence