Quotes About Not Fitting In With Your Family

#1. How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Rabih Alameddine

#2. If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

J.D. Salinger

#3. A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

Barbara Sher

#4. I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

Katie McGarry

#5. Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Ayn Rand

#6. It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.

Jean Shrimpton

#7. I'm not fit company for man or beast.

Billy Strayhorn

#8. Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

Paul Auster

#9. Nothing lives long but the mountains and the earth. All the rest is air.

Chris Galford

#10. I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

Ogden Nash

#11. Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

Kristin Davis

#12. Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not.

Alexandra Robbins

#13. Normal is an ideal. But it's not reality. Reality is brutal, it's beautiful, it's every shade between black and white, and it's magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.

Tara Kelly