Quotes About Normalcy

Excuse me?' A beaming female face swims into focus. A woman has touched her on the arm and Grace is disconcerted, as though someone on television waved at her. She feels so remote from the world, from normal people, she thought she was invisible.

I couldn't act like a normal person again when she now knows me as a crazy person, because that would imply I have a choice. That I can choose to be crazy or normal. And if I have a choice, then that would imply that I'm not really crazy at all, and I should just stop it and get on with my life.

She is not weird at all. She is perfectly normal. Sophie is obviously prejudiced because of her beauty. Beautiful people probably suffer from terrible discrimination just like other minority groups. Sophie should think of Grace's beauty as a handicap, like blushing. Ha, ha.

doesn't mean to say we are always going to be crazy either. Simply that we are back on that line, jostling for position with everyone else who claims to be normal.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

So if your teenage daughter is developing normally, you are living with someone who secretly worries that she is crazy and who might have the psychological assessment results of a psychotic adult.

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

Something it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one pretending to be normal.

So I stared, and Samantha looked back at me, and there we were: a perfectly normal married man with three kids and a promising career who just happened to enjoy killing people, staring at a perfectly normal eighteen-year-old girl who went to a good school and liked Twilight and who wanted to be eaten, sitting next to each other in a walk-in refrigerator at a vampire club in South Beach.

This that you are proposing, it is irregular and we are not people who are well with irregularness." At

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

They were moving along like that, each cupping a hold of the other. In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the beautiful and fortunate, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

We weren't prejudiced against them. We wanted to include them in our society if they would only act normal!

We were ready to accept the Negroes. We weren't prejudiced against them. We wanted to include them in our society if they would only act normal.

It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

Cecila was weird, but we're not. And then: We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

Juliette made her feel almost normal. Was the ME better at working with the dead than the rest of them? Perhaps seeing the unpredictability of life daily on the autopsy table gave her the capacity to enjoy each moment. But Nadine preferred puppies.

What's the matter with you? Huh? Huh?' 'Why can't you be normal?' 'Why do you wanna be so different?

Do you realize that one out of every four Americans is unbalanced? Think of your three closest friends. If they seem normal, then you are the one.

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.