Lois Lowry Quotes

I was considered an ugly duckling.

I wasn't cool at all when I was younger; no one wanted anything from me.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I'm not really the cool dude at all.

I feel like the red-headed stepchild of Young Money.

I didn't have no friends or nothing; I was a nerdy kid.

I was always small and thin. I wasn't the kid who got invited to parties.

I was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it - but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.

And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

I just don't think men fancy me.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.