Quotes About Individuality

You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

I can't wear thethe ! I want my thtwipey oneth !

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so." After

Bye, pet. You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

Lettie, as the second daughter, was never likely to come to much

Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.

I daresay she is as proud of you as I am. We are two old ladies who both had a hand in forming you. You are, one might say, our joint creation. Don't you think I did any of me myself, then? Howl asked. Put in just a few touches of my own? A few, and those not altogether to my liking, Mrs Pentstemmon replied.

As an old woman, she did not mind what she did or said. She found that a great relief.

We can't all be Mad Hatters," said Howl.

I didn't ask to be a witch.' Chrestomanci looked at him with faint, chilly surprise. 'Didn't you?' The way he said it made Charles actually wonder, for a moment, if he had somehow chosen to be born a witch.

Pudgy is comfortable," said Julia. "It must be a nuisance to look like a china doll, the way you do.

You know the way they have mouths that don't seem to smile in the same way as normal people's.

When your surname is Smith, you need to make very sure everyone knows just which Smith you are.

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet backdrop of social history.

Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment s unique.

According to Jan, The personality of animals will develop according to how you raise, train, educate them—you can't generalize about them. Just like people who own dogs and cats will tell you, no two are exactly alike. Who knew that a rabbit could learn to kiss a human, open doors, or give us reminders about dinnertime? Wicek's

We are the same and not the same, uniquely other, but with pages of shared history.