Be Somebody Quotes

“You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I reckon they howl like that because they're so hungry it hurts, and that's what I feel in me every day of my life. I'm so hungry to be somethin' - to be somebody. You hear me?' He did. 'I'm not lyin' down ever. Not for you. Not for anyone.' I ended it. 'I'm hungry, Steve.'
Sometimes I think they're the best words I've ever said.
'I'm hungry.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“I’d thought my list was a way to make me stand out. To become “somebody.” A girl who deserves a label. But I’m already someone worth my own time and my own labels.
I’m me. I’m a girl taking chances, every day. Because taking chances is what life is all about, right?
And, I’ve realized, I don't have to be all one thing or the other. And just because someone else has slapped a label on me, it doesn’t mean that I have to accept their definition of who I should be.
My list was never about standing out and getting attention, but to make myself someone I admire. And I don’t need a bottle of luck or a charm to change my life.”
― Julie Abe, The Charmed List