Quotes About Uniqueness

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.

I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Even if, by some miracle, I could be better than them, I will never be one of them

It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

as though she was the only real thing in a land of ghosts.

Interesting." He takes another step closer, squatting and regarding us from eye level. "There are so few children in Faerie that I've never seen one of us twinned. Is it like being doubled or more like being divided in half?

What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?

I don't want to be a creature, shaped by their hands and quickened with their blood. Something made like a doll, from snow and sticks. An assemblage of parts, stranger even than the sluagh.

Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.

The differences between a soldier, an artisan, a man of business, a lawyer, an idler, a student, a statesman, a merchant, a sailor, a poet, a beggar, a priest, are as great, though not so easy to define, as those between the wolf, the lion, the ass, the crow, the shark, the seal, the sheep, etc. Thus social species have always existed, and will always exist, just as there are zoological species.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

I'll never be a normal person ever again. You took that away from me. You made me ABNORMAL and it's lonely being abnormal.

It was something to do with her sense of always feeling separate from everybody else, as if things that worried them couldn't possibly worry her, as if she were immune from the ordinariness of life.

that beautiful woman held themselves differently; they swayed like palm trees in the breeze of all that attention. Cecilia wanted her daughters to run and stride and stomp. She didn't want Polly to bloody sway.

Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

We're not all beautiful , just like we're not all musical, and that's fine. And don't give me that inner beauty shining through crap either

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

Theres no keepin up with the brother man I can spell my name in burnt rubber.

Im so cool even I want to be me.