“And if that sounds like an excuse, sue me. Everybody else has.”
“So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.”
“Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.”
“I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.”
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.”