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81 " Well, there's the type of person who says there are certain types of people and then tries to be one type or the other. And then there are others who say bananas to the whole concept of types and won't allow themselves to be filed neatly away under some sort of ridiculously limiting category. "
― Matthew Quick , Every Exquisite Thing
82 " But you also pay a high price when you order people to do things that they can't do - especially people with a strong sense of self, people with rebel personalities. "
83 " But she [Nanette] knows how fickle this crew is. They move like a flying V of geese in the sky - all together. So once on of them changes course, the rest must follow. "
84 " Daily life. It's easier while conducting the experiment. Much like ghost floating. She [Nanette] tries to swallow her entire self deep down inside her, where no one can see. Harmless as a benign tumor. And she becomes very convincing, smiling all the time, laughing, being who everyone wants her to be, sitting with the girls again in the cafeteria instead of alone on the bench outside. "
85 " And then one day you will look for you in the mirror and you'll no longer be able to identify yourself - you'll only see everyone else. You'll know that you did what they wanted you to do. You will have assimilated. And you will hate yourself for it, because it will be too late. "
86 " Why won't you give me a straight answer?''Because there's no such thing. That's what you learn when you grow up. No one knows the answers. No one. "
87 " Because lonely people often have great ideas but no support. People with support too often have bad ideas but power. And you don't give up power. No one does, regardless of whether they have good ideas or not. "
88 " I like listening to music and reading poetry and novels. I like seeing art house films. I like having philosophical discussions as I look up at a hunter's moon. I like being alone with one other person, rather than being at big parties full of so many people who you never manage to have a real conversation with at all. I like swimming in the ocean. And I like... "
89 " Maybe proms and parties and college soccer teams and traditional learning are just fine for people like her and most of the world, but it's not fine for me, and I don't know how to make everyone else understand that without insulting them, which I really don't want to do. "
90 " Maybe it's more fun to fill in the blanks with gossip, and so it's like I'm invisible again. It's amazing how my entire class instantly unites against me without anyone even wondering if my motives were legit. "