“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
“I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.”
“No one was dancing, least of all us, because I don't dance in public. My body's a private thing; it doesn't belong to the world at large.”
“I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did.”
“I will never belong to anyone—I will die before I allow that to happen.”
“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”