Outcasts And Outsiders Quotes

“Look, I know it's none of my business, but you should really either get a job or get married, one or the other. I mean, seriously. Or better still, you should do both. Otherwise you're going to end up starving to death sometime, you know. You're really living on the edge. (138)”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“She didn't belong here. She didn't belong anywhere.”
― Alyssa Moon, Delphine and the Silver Needle

“Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.”
― Sheldon Lee Compton, Brown Bottle

“Quando sei un reietto, ti affezioni anche alle pietre che ti scagliano.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“The girls - Tallskinnyblonde, Ponytailfreckleface, Shortblackhair, Alwayswearspearls, and Roundchubbycheeks - hung back in a little covey, walking slower, chattering and giggling. Their voices lifted up to Kya like chimes. She was too young to care much about the boys; her eyes fixed on the troop of girls. Together they squatted to watch a crab skittering sideways across the sand. Laughing, they leaned against one another's shoulders until they flopped in the sand in a bundle.
Kya bit her bottom lip as she watched. Wondering how it would feel to be among them. Their joy created an aura almost visible against the deepening sky. Ma had said women need one another more than they need men, but she never told her how to get inside the pride.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I'll never be one with this place. A spectator, nothing more. There's a feeling of disconnect I can't shake. I guess it might fade. But I think it's probably just me. I don't belong here.

Deep down, I know the truth. I don't belong anywhere anymore.”
― O.M. Faye, Wonderwall

“[W]hat made them contrary was their apathy towards other people's opinions about them. Well, outward appearances were one thing. Inside, with only each other to confide in, they felt the cold shoulder of rejection the same as anyone.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell