Quotes About Peculiar

There is more in sickness than the name of that sickness. In the average person is the peculiar that has been scuttled, and in the peculiar the ordinary that has been sunk; people always fear what requires watching.

Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

He's American," corrected Tarnie. "That's not weird. Well, you know. It is a bit weird but it's not his fault.

She knew the secret of my creepiness.

Then let us raise children within a codified hero-system, that will permit us to survive and thrive according to our peculiar needs.

It felt something like a legendary dragon's hoard, only the dragon was either very misguided or extremely eccentric.

as deformed as a grotesque potato

axle-grease, grass, toothpaste, fish-milkshake and raw horseflesh.

I watched with the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mutely to witness folly

What I do feel, really, is that I am a lot more ordinary than I thought. This probably only means I've come to terms with being peculiar; possibly, also, the time for existential leaps is over and I am myself, now.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I'm in a unique situation in every facet of my life.

Her family was at least as dysfunctional and peculiar as his own, riven with scenes that to other people might've been epoch defining—'it was a month before Daddy torched Mummy's portrait in the hall, and the paneling caught fire, and the fire brigade came, and we all had to be evacuated via the upstairs windows'—but to the Campbells were so normalized they seemed routine.

Looking like a rake with two plastic tangerines tied to it

What was there in that peculiar little cartoon that could so offend and enrage that the creators would be deemed worthy of assassination?

and looked at Loren Page, who had taken on a strange look.

Strange I may be, but clingy I am not.

She is the elephant's eyebrows

There's no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it's automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way.

She's a bit...odd. You mean crazy, Ling said. I'd say eccentric. That's a nice way of saying crazy.

preternaturally

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

Here, in spite of the peculiar hideousness of the architecture, there were renewals of transcendental otherness, hints of the morning's heaven.