Florence

“They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by the university and talk about our problems getting along. . . . . They didn't teach me to get along, but I did learn that there were plenty of other kids who couldn't get along any better than me. That in itself was encouraging. I realized that I was not the bottom of the barrel. Or if I was, the bottom was roomy because there were a lot of us down there.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye

“It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf.”
― Joseph Annaruma

“I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...”
― André Gide