Quotes About Identity

There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents.

Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name.

A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

the cross had slipped back onto my chest. I unclasped it and after wrapping the chain around the metal, tucked it into my bra

I'd love to be what I have been.

No, " said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

...seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

She had yet to actually call him by his real name. The psychologist in him had all kinds of theories as to why. The man in him wanted to hear her say it. Just once.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

I don't think I'm crazy, but then again, define crazy.

You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.

Yer a wizard, Harry!

Boyfriend?"Her cheeks heated. "Yes.""Funny name.""What?" She frowned. "Ernest is a perfectly nice name.""Oh, I thought I heard you call him Ermine.

A woman needs a man like a tortoise needs a crah helmet.

Please don't arrest me.""Listen to me, I'm not going to arrest you, ok? I'm not a cop.""Are you sure?""Am I sure I'm not a cop? yes, I'm sure.""You could be undercover.

I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.