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Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
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normal
snafu
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Jim Butcher |
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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.
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everyone
funny
normal
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Rick Riordan |
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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.
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health
labor
normal
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Ina May Gaskin |
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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.
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creepy
dark-falls
death
factory
gas
grief
living-dead
murder
normal
people
plastics
poison
pollution
small-town
townsfolk
yellow
zombie
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R.L. Stine |
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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.
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dissociative-identity-disorder
mental
mental-health
mental-illness
mpd
multiple-personality-disorder
multiplicity
normal
pain
psychiatric
psychology
student
trauma
undergraduate
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Deborah Bray Haddock |
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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.
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doctor
health
labor
normal
wisdom
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Ina May Gaskin |
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What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together
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important
inspiration
life
normal
what-happened
what-is-normal
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Terry Pratchett |
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"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."
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normal
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Charles de Lint |
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"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."
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goal
mental-health
mental-illness
mpd
multiple-personality-disorder
multiplicity
normal
pain
piece
psychiatric
psychology
puzzle
safe
safety
support
trauma
understanding
unsafe
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Deborah Bray Haddock |
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"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."
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cute-moments
humor
normal
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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Normal people don't know how lucky--how blessed--they are.
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normal
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Darren Shan |
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Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
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normal
parents
shoplifting
teenagers
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Daniel Clowes |
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Normal is boring. Who wants that?
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mgg
normal
sarah-mlynowski
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Sarah Mlynowski |
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"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."
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conservative
nonconformist
normal
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Jon Ronson |
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"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."
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normal
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Christine Feehan |
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"Being normal isn't that miserable." "Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness."
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normal
witch
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Gregory Maguire |
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"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."
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argument
birthday
brother
cake
death-of-a-sibling
depression
father
funeral
grief
loss
memory
money
mourning
normal
nostalgia
parent
sibling
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Rebecca McNutt |
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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.
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change
disease
end
ill
life
normal
terminal
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Mitch Albom |
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There's no such thing as crazy. There's no such thing as normal, either.
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normal
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Meg Cabot |
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Wariatem jest ten, kto ma sie za calkowicie normalnego, a za nienormalnych uwaza cala reszte.
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normal
normalny
polish
wariat
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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"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."
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backwater
danvers-state
drama
emotional
friendship
gross
heaert-heartbreak
mental-hospital
mommy
normal
norman-bates
parent
rebellion
runaway
rural
small-town
teen-roance
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Rebecca McNutt |
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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
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fix
life
normal
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David Gerrold |
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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.
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city
fame
inspirational
london
normal
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Caitlin Moran |