Eleanor Catton Quotes

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.

I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.

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

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

I always felt like an outcast at school. I had good friends, but none that I truly related to.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'

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

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Neither God nor the Devil would take me in, so here I am.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.

I've never really fit in.

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I always felt like a misfit.