Quotes About Identity

So what am I now?" Lee says, teasing. Dodo sighs. Gives Lee a hard look. "A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

When he looked over to see if Catherine had heard, she had her head up the tiled fireplace, as if she were trying it on, to see whether it fit. Catherine was six months pregnant. Nothing fit her except for Henry's baseball caps, his sweatpants, his T-shirts. But she liked the fireplace.

Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores.

After he got expelled, everybody at school called Jake Houdini instead of Jake. Everybody except for me. I'll explain why, but you have to be patient. It's hard work telling everything in the right order.

Year after year On the monkey's face A monkey face

Did he judge on appearance alone? would he judge me? Goth doesn't cut it when it comes to a word that describes me. I'm complex. Complicated. No one gets me, and I like it that way.

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)

Culture clash is terrific drama

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

You're a queer?" "That's exactly what I am. I didn't choose to be." After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck's shoulders. "Well, what the hell," he said. "At least you're not a Republican.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

They're Americans when they win races, and when they get conscripted into the army,' Dave said. 'But they're Negroes when they want to buy the house next door to yours.

There's nothing wrong with white people. They just ain't black.

They carried Union Jack flags. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Weißt du denn nicht, dass du die Seele verlierst, wenn du die Wahrheit über dich selbst abstreitest?

half the people in London were not English anyway: they were Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Caribbean, Indian and Chinese. All the drug dealers came from islands: Maltese men sold pep pills

Why was it, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

A country is mostly the people in it," Maud said. "I don't love England. My parents died a long time ago, and my brother has disowned me. I love Germany. For me, Germany is my wonderful husband, Walter; my misguided son, Erik; my alarmingly capable daughter, Carla; our maid, Ada, and her disabled son; my friend Monika and her family; my journalistic colleagues . . . I'm staying, to fight the Nazis.

A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

L'homme qui prépare les onguents et les médecines a pour nom apothicaire. Lorsque c'est une femme qui exerce cette activité, on l'appelle sorcière.

She shook her head in perplexity. I'll never know where you got the idea that you were destined for greatness. She dropped the rest of the rabbit in the pot and begun to clean the underside of its skin. She would use the fur. You certainly didn't inherit it from your forebears.

But now he realized that, as a Jew, you could go anywhere in the world and always find someone to treat you like family.

if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?