4 Quotes by Mandy Brownholtz

The universe did not concern itself with the problems of individuals...It either implied callousness or the utmost humility, that it didn't try to tell people what was best for them. It just threw them into a soup of murky misdeed and motive and sat idly, watching life happen to them.

Here she began to question the validity of her memory, the way it struggled to reveal exact phrases and turns of syntax...It was only now that she examined these frayed edges, realizing that moments exist in limbo as they occur, as of yet unable to be determined as insignificant or definitive. Perhaps some of these moments were more definitive than others

She noted the way little pieces of yourself fall off like trash, gum wrappers and fuzz you pick off a sweater. In the same way you accumulate memories, spots of time adhere to your surroundings like stray hairs and static electricity, so that you spot them in the corner of your eye and wilt, awash with the heady sentiments of recollection. This is the problem, Viv would realize, when you've stayed in one place for far too long.

You can't simultaneously be the product of your environment and still choose your own destiny; your destiny was written in your bones before your existence, and bore you into your environment without asking you. Everything you've ever read, watched, listened to; it all seeps into your flesh and makes you the person you are, and if that makes you the person you are, it affects every 'choice' you make