Quotes About Identity

Who are you? because even now, she couldn't let her questions go. What are you? That face that wasn't a face smiled. It was the most terrible thing she'd ever see, ever. Magnus he said. I'm the end.

Myrnin: There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl. Claire: Except yours.

I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right? No, he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don't have the ovaries (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

What's her name? Claire, what's her name?

Paul?" I said. My voice shook a little. "It's Jo." Silence. I couldn't tell what was happening on the other end. Then, very quietly, "Jesus." "No, just Joanne, although I can see how you might make the mistake, coming back from the dead and all.

They don't know you're secretly a badass?

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

Do you imagine that they're going to issue me a citation...what was your name again? Still Eve. No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.

One thing you learn early growing up a girl--people always talk, whatever you do,' Glain said. 'What bliss it must be to be male.

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there's always a geek.

Michael...Michael got bitten. And now he's a vampire. But he doesn't remember becoming one, and that's a big problem. So if you see him, don't, you know, hug. He bites. He doesn't mean it, though.

I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I ever want to use it.

In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded — self-confident. Something she wasn't.

I know, not what you were expecting am I? Everybody says that. Including my own family.

I need to be a vampire, she said. and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care who turns me. The important thing is that if I change, I'll be a princess. I was wrong. She was really crazy.

Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.

I feel like I'm some kind of fugitive here, like I'm hiding from something. Maybe myself.

Porque soy una chica, pensó Claire. Casi no fue capaz de contener su alivio interior. Porque somos todas tontas e inseguras y creemos que nunca somos lo suficientemente buenas.

But he was starting to realize that maybe he didn't really have a home, except with the people he loved.

This one is named Eve, I said. And don't check my teeth like I'm your livestock. I bite back.

One thing you learn early growing up a girl—people always talk, whatever you do," Glain said.

I'm not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who'd submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.