“It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.”
“It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.”
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
“i'm always apologizing. forever apologizing. for who i am and what i never meant to be and for this body i was born into, this DNA i never asked for, this person i can't unbecome.”
“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
“…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.”