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...

I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they’re not just looking...

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...

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they’re normal and can’t be changed. A lot of what I write about is, ‘Hey, you know, this...

I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I’m overdosing on the trauma of others, while still...

I’m not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I’m going to save it for after the Olympics!

This is normal, to have pressure. It’s how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won’t keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to...

Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest about why I’m the way I am. But if they could make me ‘normal’, I wouldn’t want that. I’ve...

Normal doesn’t happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you...

I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves… But I don’t do things because people always like what I do.

You see, that’s what’s so odd, how everyone thinks they’re normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn’t that wonderful?

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.

I don’t know what ‘normal’ means, anyway.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: ‘She’s not like normal people.’

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high...

I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.

I don’t tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that’s been snatched away. I’m not even back where I...

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people’s eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

Scratch the surface of what’s socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to...

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

But there is one part of this that hurts. The carefree, normal part. The part of me that was lost when we first moved and that I’ll never get back.

real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from...

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it’s other people who won’t let me be that way.

Any ideas of ‘other’ are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of ‘normal.’

Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I walked through life, an actor in a Leave it to Beaver episode, determined...

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

…the villagers had decided that ‘practical’ meant ‘extremely magical and full of interesting objects’ and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.

I didn’t know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was informed I had died. Nobody ever told me what I was. I figured I...

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don’t want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

Disagreement is something normal.

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

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out...

Yeah. She’d manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She’d talked rationally about putting people’s brains into computers. This was a normal day. No...

I’ve never been more normal than I am now.

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

I can’t work well when I am under stress. It reduces me to normalcy. Stress is my kryptonite. And I usually don’t change in phone booths, though I do take long distance showers there.

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they’re normal to you because you’ve been dealing with them all your life.

Nobody’s sane above the law.

I don’t know why I write really depressing songs. I’m a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I’m about normal.

I don’t want to say I can’t wait to get back to normal life, because I don’t. I don’t want to get back to normal life.

…there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

Weird how I can feel so frail and tiny sometimes, and other times so brave and bold and reckless and free, and . . . Does everybody feel the same? When people get grown-up, do...

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don’t like to have hot food for lunch.

My goal is not to be perfect or normal. My goal is to be WHOLE.

It’s been my experience that those people who seem the most ‘normal’ are in fact the most dangerous.