Quotes About Normal

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.

Klonopin ruined my lie. It takes away your drive, and in the morning, you don't want to get out of bed, because you feel so groggy. I don't even know what it's like to feel normal. This is my world. Things don't get me as excited as most people because I'm in a constant state of sedation. It should never have been prescribed for long-term use.

Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.

alone came, pitched in a normal tone but carrying clearly. 'Somehow,' she said coldly, 'you have confused profitable and not profitable with right and wrong.

After all, he had secrets to keep about his sexual identity and behavior, and having a wife made him look more 'normal' than not having one. I guess that was what he meant when he said he needed me.

Normal was the simple wish of everyone with a mental illness. Normal was what everyone else, the worried well, took for granted.

I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter

The truth is, however, that there is nothing very "normal" about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all.

T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.

That's not weird," said Jenny. "That's normal. Try reading a story backward. That's weird. I'm the weird one in this class." "That's a laugh!" said Rondi. "If you're so weird, then how come you never asked Louis to kick you in the teeth? I'm the one who's crazy!" "No, that's not crazy," said Todd. "I'll tell

Normal doesn't feel so normal to me, I tell him. It's normal to feel that way, he replies.

As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.

It's for your own good," she said tenderly. "All I want for you is a normal life." "Mother," Franny sighed. "What makes you think that's what I want?

All I want for you is a normal life. Mother, what makes you think that's what I want?

So there he lay in his bed, waiting for the token of love he so desperately desired. But what he received from his mother instead were constant admonitions to be well-mannered, well-adjusted, "normal." Later

If I'm as normal as I think I am, we're all a bunch of weirdos.

un probable futuro ya está conectado a tu «yo» actual, en una dimensión más allá del tiempo y el espacio. Si sigues leyendo, al terminar el libro esta idea ¡te parecerá de lo más normal!

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

I called to the waiter, 'bring me one of those Antares things.' Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

Era bom isto: ter pela manhã uma conversa normal, sem finalidade, uma conversa que nada tivesse a ver com o fato de o mundo estar pegando fogo.

By examining what's normal, we begin to recognize and identify what's abnormal.

Allen Barbour, an internist at Stanford University, had said that depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences.