Source: City of Ashes
“There is no such thing in life as normal”
Morrissey (1959) English singer
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Lauretta Bender / Quotes / 1954 Senate Subcommittee Hearings into Juvenile Delinquency, "Testimony of Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist, Belleveu hospital Newyork N.Y." http://www.thecomicbooks.com/bender.html <br class="br">From songs
“I'm not sure it's entirely a good thing… I've always loved the gutter.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Response to a question about the increasing critical acceptance of fantasy writing, in a Radio interview, Studio 360 http://www.studio360.org/yore/show100105.html show 640, originally broadcast (1 October 2005)
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.
Source: Love, Rosie
“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.”
Darren Shan book Cirque du Freak
Source: A Living Nightmare
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 1, The Second Crisis of Economic Theory, p. 3
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book A Child's Garden of Verses
Happy Thought.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer
Variant: …I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
Source: Go Ask Alice
“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (14 May 2008)
