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“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as the seniors at Rye when I was in the sixth grade; people who knew everything instinctively, who made their lives work out the way they wanted without even trying, who never had to make the best of a bad job because it never occured to them to do anything less then perfectly the first time. Sort of heroic super-people, all of them beautiful and witty and calm and kind, and I always imagined that when I did find them I'd suddenly know that I Belonged among them, that I was one of them, that I'd been meant to be one of them all along, and everything in the meantime had been a mistake; and they'd know it too. I'd be like the ugly duckling among the swans.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“I tried to be normal. I did everything all of you asked me to do. I ran harder and longer than anyone else just to catch up.
But look where it got me.”
― John David Graham, Running as Fast as I Can

“I've been trying to be like everybody else for the last thirty-one years. If it was possible, I think I'd have done it already.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse