Ann Brashares Quotes

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along.

Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I've come and what's changed.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write