normal

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ee1275f	Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.	normal snafu	Jim Butcher
4fd8986	Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change.	funny everyone normal	Rick Riordan
3a1d66a	It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.	labor health normal	Ina May Gaskin
1d3c16b	This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.	grief murder people death dark-falls factory living-dead plastics townsfolk yellow gas creepy pollution small-town zombie normal poison	R.L. Stine
5a81150	As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it.	pain undergraduate multiplicity psychiatric mpd mental student normal mental-illness dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder trauma psychology mental-health	Deborah Bray Haddock
6771c8d	It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.	wisdom doctor labor health normal	Ina May Gaskin
2cda6ab	What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together	inspiration life what-is-normal what-happened important normal	Terry Pratchett
0aff41d	"Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes." ... "But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are."	normal	Charles de Lint
34c1630	"As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their lives, I always get a variation of the same answer. "It is not safe. They won't understand." My goal here is to provide a small piece of that gigantic puzzle of understanding. If this book helps someone with DID start a conversation with a supportive friend or family member, understanding will be increased."	understanding pain multiplicity psychiatric unsafe mpd piece safe goal support puzzle normal safety mental-illness multiple-personality-disorder trauma psychology mental-health	Deborah Bray Haddock
d5d6f8f	"Bananas?" He nodded with a small grin. "I discovered about those years ago that I absolutely hate those damn things." "But they're just bananas." "They're the fruit of the devil." A surprised laugh burst out of me. "That's ridiculous." The half grin spread and the dimple appeared. "It's the truth. Now it's your turn."	humor cute-moments normal	Jennifer L. Armentrout
f1564ce	Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?	shoplifting parents normal teenagers	Daniel Clowes
7c95c35	Normal people don't know how lucky--how blessed--they are.	normal	Darren Shan
7954f64	Normal is boring. Who wants that?	sarah-mlynowski mgg normal	Sarah Mlynowski
db3ba88	"Her fingertip traced his smile. "I'm sorry I was so crazy about the healer giving me blood, but I really can't stand it yet, even thinking about it. When we're together, it seems different, something beautiful and natural, but the thought of anyone else--" Her stomach lurched, and she broke off. Jacques' mouth skimmed her face, settled on her lips for a brief, disturbing moment. "I understand. I am stronger now, little red hair. I can care for you properly." Her eyebrows shot up, and she frowned. "That isn't exactly what I meant. Don't go all macho on me. That would make me sicker than finding some cute human male to feed off." She was teasing him. Intellectually he knew it, but for a moment a red haze of jealousy clouded his mind. Rage welled up, and he forced it under control. He knew immediately that he was lucky she didn't want to take sustenance from another man. Something in his fragmented mind, or perhaps it was his possessive nature, would not stand for it. No man, human or Carpathian, was going to be completely safe until he learned to control his fear of losing her. Jacques raked a hand through his hair. "I have a long way to go before I will be normal again." She burst out laughing. "No one has said you ever were normal, Jacques."	normal	Christine Feehan
6ba2b94	"We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look!" we're saying. "WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!" We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it."	nonconformist conservative normal	Jon Ronson
de3eb64	There's no such thing as crazy. There's no such thing as normal, either.	normal	Meg Cabot
f0bf718	We are Henceforth-mongers, trying to make our Henceforth the most enticing. Because the secret of everyone who comes to London - who comes to any big city - is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home. The only way they will ever feel normal is if they hijack popular culture with their weirdness... and make the rest of the world suddenly wish to become as weird as them.	inspirational fame normal london city	Caitlin Moran
a53006d	Wariatem jest ten, kto ma sie za calkowicie normalnego, a za nienormalnych uwaza cala reszte.	normalny wariat polish normal	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
35a2e9e	"Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after... you know... after the funeral we haven't had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping you'd be more mature now that Jud's gone," her father had disappointedly added. "How much'd that cake cost you?" "It's paid for," Mandy had argued, but her voice had sounded tiny in the harbour wind. "I used the cash from my summer job at Frenchy's last year and I... it was my birthday, dad!" "You can't even be normal about this one thing, can you?" her father had complained. Mandy hadn't cried, she'd only stared back knowingly, her voice shaky. "...I'm normal."	money mourning grief loss depression death-of-a-sibling sibling brother cake argument birthday funeral parent normal father memory nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
49d4e9b	That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.	terminal ill change life end disease normal	Mitch Albom
bdac2e1	"Being normal isn't that miserable." "Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness."	witch normal	Gregory Maguire
4777132	"I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway." "Why?" asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air. Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. "It'd break her heart if I left." "Ain't that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin' up?" "Not for me, it isn't." Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. "So, you wanna keep bein' towed around with your mom, livin' in a gross town like Danvers?" "Is there a choice?" "Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it's too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates."	rebellion friendship backwater danvers-state heaert-heartbreak mommy norman-bates runaway rural teen-roance mental-hospital emotional small-town parent normal gross drama	Rebecca McNutt
9815dc3	I mean, I tried to change, I did, everybody tries to change, Michael. Not just the queerboys. You look in the mirror and all you see is what's wrong, I'm not _this_ enough or I'm not _that_ enough, and you spend your whole life trying to fix yourself, because you just want to be okay inside your head, you know? I know you know this, Michael, that's why you're here. You're looking for the fix. Yeah, that's why they call it a fix. Because you think you're broken. Only you're not--that broken feeling? That's normal. That's how you know you're normal. If you're not feeling it, you really are broken, that's the joke	life fix normal	David Gerrold

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Jim Butcher

4fd8986

Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change.

funny everyone normal

Rick Riordan

3a1d66a

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

labor health normal

Ina May Gaskin

1d3c16b

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.

grief murder people death dark-falls factory living-dead plastics townsfolk yellow gas creepy pollution small-town zombie normal poison

R.L. Stine

5a81150

As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it.

pain undergraduate multiplicity psychiatric mpd mental student normal mental-illness dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder trauma psychology mental-health

Deborah Bray Haddock

6771c8d

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

wisdom doctor labor health normal

Ina May Gaskin

2cda6ab

What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together

inspiration life what-is-normal what-happened important normal

Terry Pratchett

0aff41d

"Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes." ... "But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are."

normal

Charles de Lint

34c1630

"As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their lives, I always get a variation of the same answer. "It is not safe. They won't understand." My goal here is to provide a small piece of that gigantic puzzle of understanding. If this book helps someone with DID start a conversation with a supportive friend or family member, understanding will be increased."

understanding pain multiplicity psychiatric unsafe mpd piece safe goal support puzzle normal safety mental-illness multiple-personality-disorder trauma psychology mental-health

Deborah Bray Haddock

d5d6f8f

"Bananas?" He nodded with a small grin. "I discovered about those years ago that I absolutely hate those damn things." "But they're just bananas." "They're the fruit of the devil." A surprised laugh burst out of me. "That's ridiculous." The half grin spread and the dimple appeared. "It's the truth. Now it's your turn."

humor cute-moments normal

Jennifer L. Armentrout

f1564ce

Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

shoplifting parents normal teenagers

Daniel Clowes

7c95c35

Normal people don't know how lucky--how blessed--they are.

normal

Darren Shan

7954f64

Normal is boring. Who wants that?

sarah-mlynowski mgg normal

Sarah Mlynowski

db3ba88

"Her fingertip traced his smile. "I'm sorry I was so crazy about the healer giving me blood, but I really can't stand it yet, even thinking about it. When we're together, it seems different, something beautiful and natural, but the thought of anyone else--" Her stomach lurched, and she broke off. Jacques' mouth skimmed her face, settled on her lips for a brief, disturbing moment. "I understand. I am stronger now, little red hair. I can care for you properly." Her eyebrows shot up, and she frowned. "That isn't exactly what I meant. Don't go all macho on me. That would make me sicker than finding some cute human male to feed off." She was teasing him. Intellectually he knew it, but for a moment a red haze of jealousy clouded his mind. Rage welled up, and he forced it under control. He knew immediately that he was lucky she didn't want to take sustenance from another man. Something in his fragmented mind, or perhaps it was his possessive nature, would not stand for it. No man, human or Carpathian, was going to be completely safe until he learned to control his fear of losing her. Jacques raked a hand through his hair. "I have a long way to go before I will be normal again." She burst out laughing. "No one has said you ever were normal, Jacques."

normal

Christine Feehan

6ba2b94

"We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look!" we're saying. "WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!" We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it."

nonconformist conservative normal

Jon Ronson

de3eb64

There's no such thing as crazy. There's no such thing as normal, either.

normal

Meg Cabot

f0bf718

We are Henceforth-mongers, trying to make our Henceforth the most enticing. Because the secret of everyone who comes to London - who comes to any big city - is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home. The only way they will ever feel normal is if they hijack popular culture with their weirdness... and make the rest of the world suddenly wish to become as weird as them.

inspirational fame normal london city

Caitlin Moran

a53006d

Wariatem jest ten, kto ma sie za calkowicie normalnego, a za nienormalnych uwaza cala reszte.

normalny wariat polish normal

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

35a2e9e

"Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after... you know... after the funeral we haven't had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping you'd be more mature now that Jud's gone," her father had disappointedly added. "How much'd that cake cost you?" "It's paid for," Mandy had argued, but her voice had sounded tiny in the harbour wind. "I used the cash from my summer job at Frenchy's last year and I... it was my birthday, dad!" "You can't even be normal about this one thing, can you?" her father had complained. Mandy hadn't cried, she'd only stared back knowingly, her voice shaky. "...I'm normal."

money mourning grief loss depression death-of-a-sibling sibling brother cake argument birthday funeral parent normal father memory nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

49d4e9b

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

terminal ill change life end disease normal

Mitch Albom

bdac2e1

"Being normal isn't that miserable." "Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness."

witch normal

Gregory Maguire

4777132

"I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway." "Why?" asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air. Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. "It'd break her heart if I left." "Ain't that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin' up?" "Not for me, it isn't." Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. "So, you wanna keep bein' towed around with your mom, livin' in a gross town like Danvers?" "Is there a choice?" "Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it's too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates."

rebellion friendship backwater danvers-state heaert-heartbreak mommy norman-bates runaway rural teen-roance mental-hospital emotional small-town parent normal gross drama

Rebecca McNutt

9815dc3

I mean, I tried to change, I did, everybody tries to change, Michael. Not just the queerboys. You look in the mirror and all you see is what's wrong, I'm not _this_ enough or I'm not _that_ enough, and you spend your whole life trying to fix yourself, because you just want to be okay inside your head, you know? I know you know this, Michael, that's why you're here. You're looking for the fix. Yeah, that's why they call it a fix. Because you think you're broken. Only you're not--that broken feeling? That's normal. That's how you know you're normal. If you're not feeling it, you really are broken, that's the joke

life fix normal

David Gerrold