“And what do you wish you were?” he asked.

            “I wish I were a girl who could do whatever she wanted,” I said at last.

            He swallowed another piece of bread. “And isn’t that what you are?”

            I had never actually thought about that, either. “Maybe,” I said, my voice uncertain. “But there are days I don’t like who I have to be.”

            “There are days all of us don’t like who we are,” Ayler replied serenely. “And there are days we work to become people we like better.”

~ Kellen and Ayler, The Dream-Maker’s Magic