There's a point, around age twenty,” Bedap said, "when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

There's a point, around age twenty,” Bedap said, "when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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