Lauren Tom Quotes

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

I think everyone kinda feels a little out place sometimes.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

I just assume a lot of people hate me. You just have to suck it up.

I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.

I always felt like a misfit.

I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I'm a loner. I don't even have many friends.