R. A. Salvatore Quotes

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

Before I let myself question my loyalty to my people, I'm quitting music. I didn't do this to be by myself.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

Growing up in Wales, there was a lot of fervour about being Welsh. But the more that I travelled, I realised that people aren't always interested in where you're from, but who you are.

I'm just gonna be who I am, who God made me, what my mom taught me to be.

I think it's important to remain true to myself, but ultimately the Miami Heat and what it stands for is part of me. It's part of my fabric.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

The story of Kal-El is actually a great story about adoption. He is an alien who has embraced his human side. As much as he loves and honours his heritage, and he needed to know where he came from and discover who he was, he has to decide who he is going to be.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.

Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.