Rebecca Stead Quotes

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I could easily not be the person that people know.