Lauren Oliver Quotes

Here's the thing: I'm not beautiful. I mean, I'm a perfectly normal-looking Jewish guy. My face has never been my fortune, nor has my body... physical beauty has never been part of my equation. It's just not on my shopping list.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

I am one of the great army of mediocrity which constitutes the majority.

… the commonest little dog I have ever seen, without one sign of distinction

Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.

Mediocrity is obscurity.

I think I'm pretty average. Typical.

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.

Banality is sometimes striking.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.

I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in. Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked.