I found this quote in a magazine the year my little one was born, and I just found the book again, and the quote struck me as quite beautiful, so I shall retranscribe it here.

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We'll always feel like we're twenty years old, even if our bodies are fifty; how our younger selves trail us throughout our lives, and sometimes we cannot explain our choices to them.
The good news is that these former selves are a lot like shadows in the sun: they only lengthen and grow more powerful as the day goes on. And now that I think about it, don't they also appear in the front of us, as well as behind - egging us on, reminding us what to strive for?

~ Jennifer Senior
Contributing Editor of New York magazine

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