Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

People want you to be ordinary.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it's much easier than pretending to be something you're not.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

I was probably the only kid in school that had long hair.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.