"I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’m gone which would not have happened if I had not come."

— Salman Rushdie (via thatkindofwoman)

(Source: thechocolatebrigade, via thatkindofwoman)