Quotes about normalization
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“It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Way

“What do you want from me?” – Nick
“Normally, it’d be your life and your soul. Unfortunately, I can’t take either right now. Sucks to be me today.” – Death”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Life, Death, Soul

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Girl, Courage

“People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

People, Dreams

“It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Cinna to Katniss Everdeen, p. 67
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: "I want the audience to recognize you when you're in the arena," says Cinna dreamily. "Katniss, the girl who was on fire."
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.”

Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress

Source: "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/18/whoopi-goldberg-saturday-interview. Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. 2009-04-17

“But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Saving Zoë

Truth, Way

“They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul

Thinking

“Normal people dont generally find their homes ransacked by demons.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People, Home

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

Law

“Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.”

Grant Morrison book The Filth

Source: The Filth

Disease, Problem, Thinking

“My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy? ]”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Bird, Parting, Happiness

“You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

World

“Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Love, World, Shoe

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 158.

World, History, Personality

“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

Money, People, Thinking

“I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: Finding Alice

Life, Hope

“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”

Frank Portman King Dork

Source: King Dork

Understanding

“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.”

Dennis Lehane book Moonlight Mile

Source: Moonlight Mile

Life, People

“I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Personality

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

Charles Addams (1912–1988) Cartoonist

Flying

“I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.”

Wendy Mass A Mango-Shaped Space

Source: A Mango-Shaped Space

People

“Uncertainty is the normal state.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

“She had perfect features, with her eye, nose, lips, and ears the right size and in right places. That is all it takes to make people beautiful, normal body parts – yet why does nature mess it up so many times?”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

People, Beauty, Nature, Time

“I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

World, Soul

“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

“Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

World, Birthday, Thinking

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

People, Learning, Madness

“Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed… normal.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Heart, Happiness

“There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Madness Underneath

People, Way, Personality

“People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: The Back Door of Midnight

People, Fear, Idea

“A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Smile, Personality

“Normal is all relative.”

Alethea Kontis (1976) American writer

Source: Enchanted

“Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

Source: Pussy, King of the Pirates

Death, World

“And I remember "normal" might never be the same again.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.”

Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher

Books, Feeling

“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”

John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician

Source: The 39 Steps

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Life, Pain, Dreams, Way

“Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ill Wind

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”

Ryū Murakami book In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup (1997)

Life, Parent, Teachers

“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

Life, Stupidity

“Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.”

Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) American politician

Universe, Country

“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”

Scott Westerfeld book The Last Days

Source: The Last Days

People, Home

“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Variant: Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. ow would you know happiness if you never experienced downs?
Source: P.S. I Love You

Life, Perfection, Happiness

“You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Thinking, Time

“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

Source: Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts

People, Thinking

“There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.”

Kelley Armstrong The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Dreams

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks <br class="br"> Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)

People, Faith, Religion, Confidence