“This was all chemistry ever was: two people's silent selves invisibly aligning while their noisy selves carried on, oblivious.”
“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
“We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies.”
“We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves”
“there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.”
“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”