“People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world. But when they see you as a fellow tribe member attempting to disavow the tribe, that is something they will never forgive.”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“You are NOT an outsider; you wear cute little blue shorts.”— Kent Osborne, Niki Yang, Adam Muto, Jake the Dog, John DiMaggio, imdb.com
“Look, my whole life, I have been the freak. The girl who nobody picked for dodgeball. The girl who didn't have a mom. The girl who dressed funny because it was her dad buying her clothes. And then, tonight I looked at these people, and I thought maybe there's a future where I don't have to be a frea…”— Ben York Jones, Kate Messner, Peyton Kennedy, imdb.com
“Emily: I didn't think homecoming was your scene. Toby: I have a scene? I didn't think listening to The Smiths alone in my room was a scene.”— Maya Goldsmith, Toby Cabanaugh, Keegan Allen, imdb.com
“There will always be someone on the outside wanting to get in.”— Stephanie Savage, Gossip Girl, Kristen Bell, imdb.com
“In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in. And I don’t want to fit in.”— Britta Lundin, Brian E. Paterson, Jughead Jones, Cole Sprouse, imdb.com
“And even as we felt none or were robbed of it along the way, we know how to illuminate a path to self-worth based on helping others, based on recognizing that you belong to something besides the violence around you.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“So one kind of misfit is the child who grew up and through one kind of violence or another, and what we have to give is this: We can endure. We know how to breathe differently in a crisis, with calm and presence.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“There is nothing wrong with us. We are the rest of you. We are useful to our culture and more; we have specific skills born of resistance, reinvention, and resilience that are vital to human existence.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“Some of us manage to invent bodies, voices, and lives worth living even though we don’t fit in to the normative socius.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“Misfits transform fear and anger and grief into expression rather than destruction—we give something of value to the rest of culture rather than succumbing to our own misery, particularly when those around us recognize our value. Misfits know how to resist the homogenizing narratives of culture sinc…”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“Misfits are remarkably good at invention, reinvention...We are resilient; we don’t just survive, we invent how to thrive.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“We who follow this path, we struggle with our relationship with the outside world.”— Jason Katims, Sarah Cleary, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com
“Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?”— Paul Lynde, books.google.com
“To acknowledge this issue is to challenge everything. To challenge everything is to become an outcast.”— George Monbiot, theguardian.com