coming of age
“Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radient colors.”
This was so much like the things that Natalie sometimes suspected about herself that she turned to Verna, swept by a
... See moreDo we have souls? Is there an essential self? I spent most of my life trying to figure out who I am and I still don’t know if there is a core or if the layers once pulled back will only reveal another layer.
“Sometimes, with the vast aching heartbreak, the great, badly contained intentions of creation, the poignant searching longings of adolescence overwhelmed her, and shocked by her own capacity for creation, she held herself tight and unyielding, crying out silently something that might only be phrased as, ‘Let me take, let me create’”. Shirley
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