I'm Special Quotes

“You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“In your twenties, you expect to accumulate a graveyard's worth of failed romances. But what you don't count on is having to bury so many treasured friendships alongside them.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“We've created a dating culture in which we never say what we really feel.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“As far as I can tell, there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and someone deciding they don't love you anymore.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“There are so many people in this world who make you feel like an alien. When you find someone who "gets it," you don't take it for granted.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Because only when you discover that you know nothing can you really start to learn something.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“That was an important thing for me to realize. It's perhaps the best lesson I could have ever taught myself. Getting it would eventually be the one thing that released me from my neuroses and let me be truly happy.
I'm not special.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Transitioning to adulthood is hard enough. Having your friends judge your progress doesn't make it any easier.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Having self-love is like nurturing a plant. If you don't take the time to water it, if you start to skip days and get distracted, it will die.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Getting angry at the world for your problems isn't going to bring you any closer to a dream job or relationship or whatever else you feel like you deserve. It's going to keep you thousands of miles away from it.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“You can try on different personalities like they're clothing for as long as you want, but I guarantee that the outfit you were originally wearing will always be the one that fits best.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“I was starting to understand that nothing in this life is owed to me and that it’s quite possible to sabotage yourself if you don’t pay attention.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“College is about figuring out who you are, and in order to do that, you need to become a lot of people you aren’t.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“I wasn't thinking clearly. You never are after a breakup. You have to pretend that everything is fine when secretly you're dying a thousand deaths a minute.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“I love watching someone put on a show, only to slowly settle into the person they really are.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Most people who have achieved a modicum of success right after they graduated did it by being brave and laughing at anyone who told them no.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Lies can boost your confidence, they can get you accepted by a group of friends..., but anything that's not the truth is going to fade.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“There are so many people in this world who make you feel like an alien. When you find someone who “gets it,” you don’t take it for granted. Great people don’t grow on trees.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“My generation is the first to be in charge of their image. We call the shots and tell you how to feel about our lives. It doesn't matter if what we are projecting is phony. If someone believes it, that makes it true.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“I was starting to understand that nothing in this life is owed to me and that it's quite possible to sabotage yourself if you don't pay attention.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Don’t ever forget that Millennials are hustlers.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“I can have brave love that's dripping with intimacy.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“The reality is that being gay is complicated. You can be here, you can be queer, but you can also have trouble dealing with it.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Getting angry at the world for your problems isn’t going to bring you any closer to a dream job or a relationship or whatever else you feel like you deserve. It’s going to keep you thousands of miles away from it.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“I was good at this: processing something humiliating and painful and then turning it into everyone else’s pleasure.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Getting angry at the world for your problems isn’t going to bring you any closer to a dream job or a relationship or whatever else you feel like you deserve.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“There's a point that comes in everybody's life when you have to stop denying the things that make you different and start to accept what you've been given - even if what you've been given is embarrassing, ugly, and prone to drooling involuntarily.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves