Quotes about Individuality

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n's instead of the usual spelling? "My dad liked music," was Crake's explanation, once Jimmy got around to asking him about it, which had taken a while. "He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n's.

But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down.

You shouldn't have forged my handwriting," I said to Laura privately. "I couldn't forge Richard's. It's too different from ours. Yours was a lot easier." "Handwriting is a personal thing. It's like stealing.

God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.

You can fall in love with anybody — a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.