John King Quotes

Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

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

There are many ways to be the odd girl out. Your pain can brief or lasting, visible to all or none, with one or many. One of the longest, quietest ways to be the odd girl out is to be friends with two girls who are closer to each other than to you.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.

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

I felt like I couldn't meet a single rich person. Regardless of where I live, they don't want to talk to me. I threw a barbecue and invited the whole neighborhood, and nobody showed up.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

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.

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

When you don't have love, it's like there's a party going on, and everybody was invited, except for you. And you just happened to be walking by that house in the rain...

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

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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 just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

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.