[How odd. How utterly similar and yet wildly different from her.
Rosalind has never, ever doubted she was extraordinary. Not once. She's never fit in, she's never gotten on with her parents, she'd never really known what it was to have friends until she hit college, but throughout all that, she knew for a fact that it was the world who was wrong, not her. If they doubted her genius, if they looked at her and saw a square peg desperately struggling to escape the round hole fate had tried to dictate for her, well, that was their problem.
So she'd been lonely. She'd been so terribly alone, but she'd had her math and her science, and she'd forced that to be enough. It had to be, because the alternative was trying to fit in and being desperately miserable, and she'd never been so lonely as to want that. She'd never . . . if I kept out of everyone's way, he says, and she, who has always aggressively forced herself to be noticed, can't imagine doing such a thing.
It isn't that he's wrong. It's just a drastic contrast between two children who were similar, and she wonders at it.]
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Rosalind has never, ever doubted she was extraordinary. Not once. She's never fit in, she's never gotten on with her parents, she'd never really known what it was to have friends until she hit college, but throughout all that, she knew for a fact that it was the world who was wrong, not her. If they doubted her genius, if they looked at her and saw a square peg desperately struggling to escape the round hole fate had tried to dictate for her, well, that was their problem.
So she'd been lonely. She'd been so terribly alone, but she'd had her math and her science, and she'd forced that to be enough. It had to be, because the alternative was trying to fit in and being desperately miserable, and she'd never been so lonely as to want that. She'd never . . . if I kept out of everyone's way, he says, and she, who has always aggressively forced herself to be noticed, can't imagine doing such a thing.
It isn't that he's wrong. It's just a drastic contrast between two children who were similar, and she wonders at it.]
Well. I should say it was worth the wait.
[She murmurs it.]