Peculiar Quotes

“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say 'Science is based on faith too!' in that angry-triumphal tone, rather than as a compliment? And a rather dangerous compliment to give, one would think, from their perspective. If science is based on 'faith', then science is of the same kind as religion—directly comparable. If science is a religion, it is the religion that heals the sick and reveals the secrets of the stars. It would make sense to say, 'The priests of science can blatantly, publicly, verifiably walk on the Moon as a faith-based miracle, and your priests' faith can't do the same.' Are you sure you wish to go there, oh faithist? Perhaps, on further reflection, you would prefer to retract this whole business of 'Science is a religion too!”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Less Wrong Sequences

“I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders.

"The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too."

"I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”
― Gertrude Stein, Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

“There´s always use in fighting,” said Emma. “Especially when it makes terrible people cry.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days

“When you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there was no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union - each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery. And no matter how well you thought you knew your partner, you occasionally ran into blank walls or fell into pits. And sometimes (rarely, thank God) you ran into a full fledged pocket of alien strangeness, something like the clear-air turbulence that can buffet an air-liner for no reason at all. An attitude or belief which you had never suspected, one so peculiar (at least to you) that it seemed nearly psychotic. And then you tread lightly, if you valued your marriage and your peace of mind; you tried to remember that anger at such discovery was the province of fools who really believed it was possible for one mind to really know another.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“I'm insane. I'll admit that. I have that awful condition: cleithrophobia. Father knew all of this, of course, but nowadays he never asks direct questions. I was determined to show him the world outside should be invited in--celebrated. I had every intention of doing the same thing tomorrow, and all nights thereafter, until he conceded, or, I made my escape to gay Paree.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary.”
― Erin Forbes, The Elementals

“You're no Mother, but after you arrived, we began to heal. We all felt it. Father speaks to us through you, and we, likewise, through you to him. Strange, but somehow you've returned the circulation to a dead household You arrived just in time With you here, I don't feel so bad about leaving.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“It's forbidden to bite a woman's arse. In the absence of a legal precedent, the Imams decided to apply human law to the guilty monkey, whoever it turned out to be. They narrowed it down to Bosco or Shin Bone. The victim was unable to distinguish one monkey from the other.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“An octopus in a tuxedo is still an octopus.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders

“Yet lucky people don’t care about the past. Lucky
people don’t seek reasons and causes. They live in the present moment and go with the flow.”
― Mr. W, The Craziest Book Ever Written

“These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"

Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.”
― David Eddings, The Treasured One

“Let's dance to the tranquil melody of our love;
a waltz of peculiar sadness & profound melancholy.
Underneath the velvet night sky of somber thoughts -
witnessed only by the most vivid stars.”
― Laura Chouette

“God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is more in sickness than the name of that sickness. In the average person is the peculiar that has been scuttled, and in the peculiar the ordinary that has been sunk; people always fear what requires watching.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“If you cannot appreciate weird subjects you should learn to, the world is very boring without them.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“I am different. I am thankful for that. I know people understand me. I believe they feel like I feel. I know they smile like I smile. I know they cry like I cry. Not tears of sorrow, no, but rather tears of gratitude and contentment – the gifts provided to us by what I believe is a loving, benevolent force in the multiverse.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

“...in that tenement house, the one with the burned bricks, there was an old Caribbean witch who made voodoo dolls.
He never saw one, but now he wondered if they looked like Kitty. Small and beautiful and just a little off-kilter. Peculiar in a way you couldn't put a finger on.”
― Allie Ray, Suffering Fools

“We are called by the same voice for different purposes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“There is a term for those who triumph against the odds—for winners nobody saw coming. They are called dark horses.

The expression 'dark horse' first entered common parlance after the publication of The Young Duke in 1831. In this British novel, the title character bets on a horse race and loses big after the race is won by an unknown “dark horse, which had never been thought of.” The phrase quickly caught on. “Dark horse” came to denote an unexpected victor who had been overlooked because she did not fit the standard notion of a champion.

Ever since the term was coined, society has enjoyed a peculiar relationship with dark horses. By definition, we ignore them until they attain their success, at which point we are entertained and inspired by tales of their unconventional ascent. Even so, we rarely feel there is much to learn from them that we might profitably apply to our own lives, since their achievements often seem to rely upon haphazard spurts of luck.

We applaud the tenacity and pluck of a dark horse like Jennie or Alan, but the very improbability of their transformation—from fast-food server to planet-hunting astronomer, from blue-collar barkeep to upscale couturier— makes their journeys seem too exceptional to emulate. Instead, when we seek a dependable formula for success, we turn to the Mozarts, Warren Buffetts, and Tiger Woodses of the world. The ones everybody saw coming.”
― Todd Rose, Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

“Peculiars don't have past lives," said Millard. "We live them all at once.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Because I like to meet other strange creatures. Good to know I'm not alone.”
― Rachel Harrison

“From the perspective of tormenting immortality, the ability to die is a great power.”
― Mr. W

“To all the writers who torment their characters the way God torments the poor and sick.”
― Mr. W, The Craziest Book Ever Written