If thou wilt, remember

"I don't know if this is me at all, Or just some ghost of me that I dreamed up Just to sing myself to sleep, Or someone that I used to be, Or someone that I will be, Or someone that I am right now..."

"But every transformation is invariably a loss, and the transformed must be mourned before the transformed-into can be relished. "

(About becoming a woman and her relationship with her mother) "For a time I resented her. She was the messenger and also the message."