#outsider

That's why we're separated,'I said. 'It's not money, it's feeling- you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#money

It's not just money. Part of it is, but not all. You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophistocated- cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is for real with us. You know sometimes I'll catch myself talking to a girl-friend, and realise i don't mean half of what I'm saying. I don't really think a beer blast on the river bottom is supercool, but I'll rave about one to a girl-friend just to be saying something. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#money

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#perception #rejection #self-awareness #life

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#i #intelligentsia #london #look #outsider

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#american #american people #american way #had #i

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#obsessed #outsider #subject #who

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#ask #bend #books #characters #determines

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#healthy #his #how #illness #loves

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe. ↗

— Lance Bass

#believe #every #feel #i #i believe

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#condition #i #just #like #outsider