Being Special Quotes

“Was it possible for a king to run so far from his identity that he ceased to be anyone special? Because I had never felt lower, or less worthy of my title.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King

“...his size drew attention
from everyone who happened to glance downwards. But Mulch quickly discovered that Mud
People could find a reason to distrust almost anyone. Height, weight, skin colour, religion. It was
almost safer to be different in some way.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“Being a perfectly unique specimen is lonely, as it turns out.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I want to be special,” I said obstinately at last.

“So does everyone else. So we have to take turns.”

‘But some people are more special than others, aren’t they?“

Juniper suddenly got extremely irritated.

"The really special ones are the ones who don’t even think about it,” she said.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child

“Nobody ever made a mark by being like everyone else.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Everyone calls everybody special, so what's so special about being special? We all must have heard "you have the spark/you're the best/ you will rule the world" and just in the cut throat competition of being "special" we have forgotten to be Simple/ordinary/mediocre..”
― Himmilicious

“The pact that we made was the ordinary pact
of men & women in those days

I don't know who we thought we were
that our personalities
could resist the failures of the race

Lucky or unlucky, we didn't know
the race had failures of that order
and that we were going to share them

Like everybody else, we thought of ourselves as special”
― Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck

“Frankie swam up suddenly from inside herself.

“Oh, you kids,” she said in a soggy, muffled sort of way. We couldn’t see any marks on her face. Her arms dangled on either side of her chair. “I hope you know how special you are.”

We nodded. Our parents and the TV told us on the regular.”
― Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds