{"quotes":[{"text":"Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.","author":"Alyson Noel","tags":["alyson-noel","be-yourself","ever","freaks","jude"],"id":48452,"author_id":"Alyson+Noel"},{"text":"She pulls a spare head from beneath a pile of shoes and raises it by the hair. It looks like one of those cheap, blue heads that botwhores keep for lonely sci-fi freaks who want to pretend they’re fucking the queen of Xenon.","author":"Judd Trichter","tags":["freaks","head","sci-fi"],"id":77787,"author_id":"Judd+Trichter"},{"text":"I'm proud to be a freak of nature.","author":"Robin Brande","tags":["freaks","nature"],"id":107302,"author_id":"Robin+Brande"},{"text":"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.","author":"Diane Arbus","tags":["aristocrats","freaks","inspirational","life-lessons","test","truth"],"id":151185,"author_id":"Diane+Arbus"},{"text":"Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast.","author":"Santosh Kalwar","tags":["beast","challenges","freaks","mad-swirl","method","philosophy","poem","poetry","psychology"],"id":176724,"author_id":"Santosh+Kalwar"},{"text":"Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["conformity","fear","freaks","normal","society"],"id":187002,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"We're all freaks sometimes, Melody,' he replied. 'You're just... Well, better at it than most.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["crazy","freaks","sanderson"],"id":187398,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.","author":"Michael Clarke","tags":["2010-icc-world-twenty20","australia-national-cricket-team","celebrations","compliments","congratulations","cricket","freaks","michael-hussey","victory"],"id":224845,"author_id":"Michael+Clarke"},{"text":"If Stuart is a freak... It is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks.","author":"Alexander Masters","tags":["freaks","friendship","homeless","strength","stuart-shorter"],"id":248575,"author_id":"Alexander+Masters"},{"text":"Everyone is born a freak,' notes Hayley. 'Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly.","author":"Laurie Halse Anderson","tags":["freaks","high-school","zombies"],"id":296332,"author_id":"Laurie+Halse+Anderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}