I remember who you are. Even if you forget.

—Kristen Simmons

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About Kristen Simmons

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Kristen Simmons (born June 5, 1984) is an author of young adult fiction. Her first published novel was Article 5, a dystopian novel about an America controlled by the "Moral Militia." Article 5 has been followed by two sequels: Breaking Point and Three.

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He was my anchor in the hurricane, yet at the same time, the hurricane itself, so that I nearly always felt safe and afraid simultaneously. There was nothing in the world as confusing and powerful as being close to him.

—Kristen Simmons in Article 5

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I could not fall back in love with him. Doing so was like falling in love with a thunderstorm. Exciting and powerful, yes. Even beautiful. But violently tempered, unpredictable, and ultimately short-lived.

—Kristen Simmons

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I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.

—Kristen Simmons in Breaking Point

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More quotations tagged with “identity”

I have a friend who has devoted most of his adult life to resisting the madness of war through actions of justice and peace. He . . . lives in poverty so as to stay below the taxation level. . . . The money he "should" have given the government over the years he has donated to peace-and-justice projects. Does he have any results to show for his efforts? Has he been effective? Hardly — at least, not by the normal calculus. His years of commitment to peacemaking have been years of steady increase in wars and rumors of wars. So how does he stay healthy and sane? How does he maintain a commitment to this sort of active life? "I have never asked myself if I was being effective," he says, "but only if I was being faithful." He judges his action not by the results it gets, but by its fidelity to his own calling and identity.

—Parker J. Palmer

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Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.

—Richelle Mead in Spirit Bound

love memory identity

Sometimes I miss the old me.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

time identity change self

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

—J. D. Salinger

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

—G. K. Chesterton

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