Quotes About Individuality

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

belittle , v. No, I don't listen to the weather in the morning. No, I don't keep track of what I spend. No, it hadn't occurred to me that the Q train would have been much faster. But every time you give me that look, it doesn't make me want to live up to your standards.

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

People are always separable.

autonomy , n . I want my books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

I don't like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

Max is a marvel to us. He will never have to come out because he will never have been kept in. Even though he has a mom and a dad, they made sure from the beginning to tell him that it didn't have to be a mom and a dad. It could be a mom and a mom, a dad and a dad, just a mom, or just a dad. When Max's early affections became clear, he didn't think twice about them. He doesn't see it as defining him. It is just a part of his definition.

Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.

Although it is such a singular word, there are many variations of alone. There is the alone of an empty beach at twilight. There is the alone of an empty hotel room. There is the alone of being caught in a throng of people. There is the alone of missing a particular person. And there is the alone of being with a particular person and realizing you are still alone.

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

No, he finally said. I don't think you're boring. I think there are times you don't allow yourself to be interesting...but clearly that can change.

I love books about freaks, because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.