Kenneth Oppel Quotes

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

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.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

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

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.