Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“She discovered that the most comfortable position in society was slightly off to the side...”

— Soledad Puertolas

“She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until then she had…

— Millie Florence

“Don’t even pretend you’re normal, don’t even pretend you belong. She couldn’t see herself sitting at a table in a coffee shop while people…

— John Hunt

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself…

— Claire Messud

“She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses…

— Lydia Davis

“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

— Diane Keaton

“All of her mannerisms, even her way of sitting, are of a perfect femininity. Or: how to occupy the least possible amount of space…

— Anne Garréta

“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not…

— Chris Cleave

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She liked, most of all, that in this place of affluent ease, she could pretend to be someone else, someone specially admitted into a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay