Quotes About Oddity

Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)

Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.

I stood by the fire, everyone around me so cheerful, and thought what an odd creature I am – even I know that. Too much space and I'm frightened, too little and I'm frightened. There is indeed no comfortable place for me – I am too near the fire or too far away. Behind

It made me feel odd looking at that eye, like there was a world of curiosities I didn't know about: crocodiles with huge eyes and snakes with no heads and thunderbolts God threw down that turned to stone. Sometimes I got that hollowed-out feeling too when looking at a sky full of stars or into the deep water the few times I went out in a boat, and I didn't like it: it was as if the world were too strange for me ever to understand it.

tuhaf olan, hep güzel olandan daha iyidir.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

It's concerning you both; for doesn't it seem odd that Gowing's always coming and Cummings' always going?" 

Of course it was still odd, but when everyone does the same odd thing, it seems almost normal.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

Parecía fuera de lugar, como un pájaro, una de esas aves que no vuelan; o como un científico abstraído que ha salido por error de su laboratorio. También tenía un aire de sordidez, un aire de fracaso.

You're some freaky shit, my brother. You really are.

I have never met such weird yet serious and earnest people.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

Boyle is a round, pancake-faced little oddball who gives you the impression that he has a room at home packed with disturbing magazines, neatly alphabetized, but he runs a scene impeccably

I like incongruity.

having 'weakly disturbing' images of waffles with pasta on top

Worst thing in the world? John is completely out of it. Good luck, ladies. He's a freak!

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'

He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts.

I believe that everyone in the world is crazy except you and me. And even you're a little bit strange.

The entire town of Monte Rio consisted of a gas station and a tire-flattened raccoon.

The little people parted and two of them carried a tray with the head of an animal Wiggley Charlie didn't recognize down an aisle. (It was the head of an opossum, but the o was silent, as often happens with the decapitated.)