Acquaintance Quote by Roger Zelazny

I wanted people to realize I was different from the first time they met me.

— Sisqo

At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence,…

— Mustafa Ali

I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody…

— Hope Jahren

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't…

— Elif Safak

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further…

— Bob Seger

A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's…

— Paul Pierce

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people…

— Kaytranada

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering…

— Robin Wasserman

As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family…

— Jenny Zhang

When I think about what made me open up to my friends in the past, it was because they were somehow just always there…

— Anonymous

I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working…

— Tobey Maguire