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1 " I wonder if that is something that comes with age - a desire for self-betterment, to change the parts of myself that are largely undesirable. For now, I'm enjoying them. Not enjoying, maybe. I understand them. They get me what I want.A stem without thorns is lesser. A stem without thorns gets eaten. "
― Savannah Brown , The Things We Don't See
2 " Narrator: "The year is 1986, and if my demographics are anything to go by, you're not there. "
3 " After one is hollowed out by suffering, one might expect something to rush in to fill the new, unoccupied parts of yourself - but that's not how it's been for me. Nothing rushed in. Instead, I sometimes look in the mirror and see not a different person, but no one at all. Not a canvas, a canvas has potentiality, a promise, an ability. Just nothing. "
4 " After one is hollowed out by suffering, one might expect something to rush in to fill the new, unoccupied parts of yourself - but that's not how it's been for me. Nothing rushed in. Instead, I sometimes look in the mirror and see not a different person, but no one at all. Not a canvas, a canvas has potentiality, a promise, an ability. Just nothing. I'm no one. "