"Jacob Have I Loved" Quotes

I had always thought that the world was a wonderful place, and I had wanted to live as much of it as possible.

Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.

I was an outsider. I had always been an outsider, and I was always going to be one.

When you are the second twin, you get no name at all. They call you baby. That's what I was, Baby, the family baby.

I would rather be a seagull than a starfish. I would rather fly than be stuck in the mud.

I was tired of being the good daughter, the good sister, the good friend. I was just tired of being good.

I had been so busy waiting for life to happen, I had forgotten that it was happening.

I had always known that I was different, but I had not known that there was a word for it.

I was learning the difference between being alone and being lonely.

It was hard to be invisible when you were the second twin, but I had managed to do it.