normal Quotes

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

“It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.”

“I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

“Angela’s easy human dramas were oddly reassuring. It was nice to know that life was normal somewhere.”

“I’m in Cinna’s Mockingjay suit, the only scars visible are on my neck, forearms, and hands. Octavia secures my Mockingjay pin over my heart and we step back to look in the mirror. I can’t believe how normal they’ve made me look on the outside when inwardly I’m such a wasteland.”

“I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn’t help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little.”

“Breakfast was a curious meal. Everyone was very polite…. Six people, all outwardly self-possessed and normal. And within? Thoughts that ran round in a circle like squirrels in a cage…. “What next? What next? Who? Which?”

“They don’t want people to know what it was like before the operation. They want to keep you hating yourselves. Otherwise, it’s too easy to get used to ugly faces, normal faces.”

“Laughter was a balm. It held panic at bay and it seemed to come easily. In those extreme circumstances it became unbearably funny just to act normal. If they could still laugh, they were all right.”

″ It was too rare to be normal, any true thing between two people is too rare. ”

“The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted. ”

“Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last.”

″ I didn’t know I was even supposed to have issues until I came to America. ”

″‘As boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. He is the cheese to my macaroni. And I know people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce, but—I guess normalcy isn’t really our style.‘”

“I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.”

“I look at that boy dyin’, I don’t feel nothin’. I don’t care about nothin’ anymore.”

“Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.”

“We had an eater, a biter, and a crier. I thought that two-thirty would never come. I also thought my mother was slightly crazy for dreaming up the party in the first place. “Doesn’t Fudge have any normal friends?” I whispered. “There’s nothing wrong with Fudgie’s friends,” my mother whispered back. “All small children are like that.” ”

“Who knows better’n I do what normal is?”

“Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.”

“Slips are totally normal. When you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide.”

“He’s a very ordinary-looking, not ugly but not hot, miscellaneous boy.”

“What makes us the most normal,” said Reiko, “is knowing that we’re not normal.”

“Well, if Rowley appreciated what I did for him last week, he hasn’t said it. But we’ve started hanging out after school again, so I guess that means me and him are back to normal.”

“. And I really wonder how people get to be normal like this. How they just seem to know what to say and do, automatically.”

A normal man, it is true, hardly exists. Among dozens—perhaps hundreds of thousands—hardly one is to be met with.”