“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”
Source: Swan Peak
Letter to J. Edward Austen (1816-12-16) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”
Source: Swan Peak
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
On the topic of gender dysphoria, as quoted in [Man, Chella, What It’s Like to Be Trans and Live With Gender Dysphoria, https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-its-like-to-be-trans-and-live-with-gender-dysphoria, 29 January 2019, Teen Vogue, September 21, 2018]