Sabaa Tahir Quotes

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

I do know what it's like to be an outsider.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

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

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

I always felt like a misfit.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

We all feel at some point of our lives that we're different, that we don't fit in.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

I always felt an outsider.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.