“School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.”— Kate Bush, brainyquote.com
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked t…”— Tom Waits, goodreads.com
“I was extremely lonely then, trying and failing to find someone speaking the exact same language of burning teenage concerns stemming from the desire to preserve individuality.”— Julia Laksa, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”— Chuck Palahniuk, goodreads.com