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“At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.”
“You're different. You are the virgin who stayed.”
“Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.''Why do you say that?''She seems different, that's all.''I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusi...”
“If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!”
“People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.”
“He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronni...”
“We're all weird.”
“Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different--dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together?”
“You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!”
“When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others.”
“Things should have beenso differentto the way they arenow.”
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be grati...”
“Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous...Our miracle is different because people say it's impossible.”
“the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.”
“Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”
“From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awak...”
“War is a big word; it’s cruel, it’s hard, nobody wants that. Protecting yourself sounds much better. Putting up walls, shutting everyone out. And forgetting that those who you are so afraid of—they...”
“What’s supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.”
“Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way...”
“I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand.”
