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1 " Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our personalities, so that each year, each month, each day, we transfer into a different person, an utterly unfaithful iteration of our original selves, of the drooling kid in the sandbox. But not me. I am still a facsimile of my early childhood. I am still looking for a loving dad to lift me up and brush the sand off my ass and to hear English, calm and hurtless, fall off his lips. "
― Gary Shteyngart
2 " Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom? "
― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
3 " Thomas had a younger sister, Ester, who was a facsimile of the womanizer brother, who had behaviors that mirrored her brother’s treatment of women, for she treated men the same way, for the same reasons. The younger sister had raised her sons with a hurtful echo in their minds that said ‘men are no good’, and because they heard it so much from their mother’s mouth, I feared that they would one day believe it to be true. "
― Sara Niles , Torn From the Inside Out
4 " True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all. "
― D. Morgenstern
