P. C. Cast Quotes

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

You only know who you think you are. You sort of feel like you could change at any minute.

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.