Quotes About Identity

And who am I to blow against the wind?

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 have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -David Levithan (Every Day)

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

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase "young adult" – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He's caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

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

She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.

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

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

So many of us had to make our own families. So many of us had to pretend when we were home. So many of us had to leave. But every single one of us wishes we hadn't had to. Every single one of us wishes our family had acted like our family, that even when we found a new family, we hadn't had to leave the other one behind. Every single one of us would have loved to have been loved unconditionally by our parents.

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

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

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both knew that. It's only when we try to make the girl or boy in our head real that the true trouble comes. I did that with Carlos, and it was a bad failure. Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

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.