That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.