What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
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Suzanne Collins
Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
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Anthony Horowitz
My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.
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Rick Riordan
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
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Suzanne Gordon
The truth is that everyday and everyone is different. We just like to think that they aren't.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Damon Galgut
He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.
All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.
There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it...
Memory is fiction. .. All memory is a way of reconstructing the past... The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]
That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.
