Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

If you please, Great-Aunt Nancy, said Emily deliberately, I don't like to be told I look like other people. I look just like myself.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness.

if I wasn't ME who'd I be?

It was such a nice feeling to know that someone was looking after you... that someone wanted you... that you were important to someone.

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done. Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.