“(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.”

— John Boyne , book The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket

Source: The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket

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Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction 1971

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