Different Quotes

The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

~ David Levithan

Those times when someone you thought was your friend talks about you behind your back really hurt. Even if you act like you don't care, deep inside, you care.

~ Zoey-Rose Hawthorne

He’s becoming useless. Worse than useless,” Sam said. Then, relenting, he said, “We’ll get past it.”“You mean you and Quinn?”“Yeah.”Astrid considered just keeping her mouth shut, not pushing it. But this was a talk she needed to have with Sam sooner or later. “I don’t think he’s going to get over it.”“You don’t know him that well.”“He’s jealous of you.”“Well, of course I am so terribly handsome,” Sam said, straining to make a joke of it.“He’s one kind of person, you’re another. When life is going along normally, you’re sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there’s a crisis, suddenly you’re completely different people. It’s not Quinn’s fault, really, but he’s not brave. He’s not strong. You are.

~ Michael Grant

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

~ Jonathan Franzen

If you blend in, you don't stand out.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

~ Ann Brashares

You wonder why he loves her, she's so unlike any other, but any man can love an ordinary woman. They’re everywhere and whereas he’s had other women love him before, they were women who loved a lot, and such love is fickle, never setting anyone apart.Attaining the love of someone known not to love is an honor and the highest level of love there is, because it’s rare, and real.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood

~ J.k. Rowling

Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself - if that doesn't make you different then something is wrong.

~ Laura Baker

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

~ Chuck Palahniuk

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

~ Kami Garcia

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

~ Matthew Quick

Little Alice fell d o w nthe hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

~ Lewis Carroll

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

~ Patricia Briggs

People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.

~ Kami Garcia

The problem is normal was'nt in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.

~ Julie Hockley

Grow up and be different and don’t let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different.

~ Fredrik Backman

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

~ John Green

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

~ Jodi Picoult

You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.

~ Toba Beta

I'm a million different things every day of the week.

~ Cecelia Ahern

I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

~ Daniel Waters

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.

~ John Green

You can't truly understand a fact by watching its' true story version.

~ Toba Beta

When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different.

~ John Fowles

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

~ Layne Staley

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

~ Donald Miller

A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new car. Everything is different. The smell, the sound of the horn and seats, and it even ride good for a while. That's what a man is like to me.

~ Jeanette Michelle

Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

~ Kathryn Davis

Being different isn't a sin, but intolerance is.

~ Marty Rubin

I don't live life to be different.I live life to be the same.

~ Anthony T.hincks

Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes.

~ Fredrik Backman

Color speaks all languages.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Remember, you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.

~ Tay Jardine

He felt as if there were something missing inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. It went beyond his title. He had enjoyed their company early in his adolescence, but it had become apparent that he'd always be a step away. The worst of it was that they didn't seem to notice he was different- or that he felt different. Were it not for Chaol, he would have felt immensely lonely.

~ Sarah J. Maas