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“I made friends easily, probably because I was spontaneous and average, which didn't intimidate people. It's the quiet ones kids are unsure about.”

— Julie Gonzalez

“…he was the most popular kid in school, and I was not. I sensed something in myself that made me feel disconnected from the…

— T.M. Goeglein

“Someone once told me that they didn't like me very much. I smiled and replied, "That's okay. For a long time, I didn't like…

— Mishi McCoy

“I didn't want to be such a good girl anymore. I wanted people to fear messing with me. ... I wanted to be intimidating.…

— Emily P. Freeman

“We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go…

— Aminatta Forna

“That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in a while?”

— Brandon Sanderson

“I gave him a weak smile. The thing was, I don't like him, or, at least, not much, but he was young and didn't…

— Marshall Thornton

“I just liked being around you, even if we didn’t say anything.”

— Matthew Quick

“I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.”

— Marian Keyes

“So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which…

— Lauren Myracle

“I wanted to like people. It worried me that I didn’t.”

— Natalie Standiford

“Maybe what I really wanted, I began to think, was a stronger sense of fellowship... I thought about my friends and about how I…

— Daniel Clowes