...till I'm somebody else

"It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say 'Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else' " -Lewis Carroll; Alice in Wonderland

...another Troy for her to burn?

"Why, what could she have done being what she is? / Was there another Troy for her to burn?" -W.B. Yeats; No Second Troy

This is the only story...

"This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut; Mother Night

We are what we repeatedly do...

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

The true test of character is...

"The true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do." -John Holt