Quotes about Identity

The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it.

everyone began to call them "sharters

A lot of gunters even questioned whether she was really female, but I wasn't one of them. Probably because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.

deviant soccer moms in Minnesota.

All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…

Weil ich keinen Bock habe, in einen übergewichtigen Kerl verknallt zu sein, der Chuck heißt und in irgendeinem Vorort von Detroit bei seiner Mutter im Keller lebt.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

Passion was passion and love was love, regardless of who the participants involved were, or what sort of body they were assigned at birth.

That's the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

I myself am made up of so many people.

Self is the soul minus God.