“I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.”

“One world and then another, running like a chain. One world treading on the heels of another world that plodded just ahead. One world’s tomorrow, another world’s today. And yesterday is tomorrow, and tomorrow is the past.
Except, there wasn’t any past. No past, that was, except the figment of remembrance that flitted like a night-winged thing in the shadow of one’s mind. No past that one could reach. No pictures painted on the wall of time. No film that one could run backwards and see what-once-had-been…
One road was open, but another road was closed. Not closed, of course, for it had never been. For there wasn’t any past, there never had been any, there wasn’t room for one. Where there should have been a past there was another world.”

“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”

“And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”

“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”

“I made up that story to change your mind. I could have been somebody else but now I'm me this time. "Intro (Day I Forgot Album)"”

“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.”

“I have often thought had there been somebody like me around, something might have been able to be done. I also think I don't see how I could have done what I've done in the world had I been married. And when I decided-because I've been on the verge of marriage many times-I said no, because if I wanted to roam the globe like I did, it wouldn't be fair. It wouldn't be fair to me, it wouldn't be fair to the people. At the point, I really feel it was a kind of destiny because I've been able to get to places. There are some people in the world who have other jobs to do.”

“You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.”

“I’ve always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Chloe Traeger”