Normal Quotes

The baby was warm against my chest. I knew I was broken too. I wasn't like other people. I was scared and weird and anxious and sad lots of the time, and I didn't know why. My parents thought I was abnormal, I was pretty sure. They said I wasn't, but you don't get sent to a therapist if you're normal.Sometimes we really aren't supposed to be the way we are. It's not good for us. And people don't like it. You've got to change. You've got to try harder and do deep breathing and maybe one day take pills and learn tricks so you can pretend to be more like other people. Normal people. But maybe Vanessa was right, and all those other people were broken too in their own ways. Maybe we all spent too much time pretending we weren't.

~ Kenneth Oppel

Normal. She wanted normal and so did I. You know what's normal?What? She wiped away her remaining tears. Calculus.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

~ Daniel Clowes

You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.

~ D.d. Barant

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

~ Jacqueline West

It must be really difficult to be normal.

~ Cass Van Krah

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

~ Julien Smith

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you

~ Vincent O'sullivan

Because I’m not normal,” I said.“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.

~ Rick Riordan

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act normal. I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

~ John Elder Robison

Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.

~ Katja Millay

The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal

~ Darren Shan

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

~ Tori Spelling

There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t—and shouldn’t—force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable.

~ Alessandra Hazard

Everybody struggles with this stuff, you know. With social discomfort and grief and fitting in. People with syndromes, people with disorders, people with diagnoses, and without. People who would be classified as neurotypical. Idiots and geniuses, maids and doctors. Nobody's got it all figured out.

~ Jael Mchenry

I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I rolled my eyes. He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy. He thought about this. Maybe he's normal and we're the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we're all just afraid of what we'd say.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Normality is the new eccentric.

~ Criss Jami

I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.

~ John David Anderson

I wanted him to meet Ainsley. She was super important to me. I made my decision. “I...I would like that.”Rider’s reaction was immediate. He smiled and the dimple appeared. My breath caught. I’d actually invited Rider along to meet Ainsley. I wanted that. Really wanted that, but I had no idea what to do with that.Regardless, excitement hummed through me. Hanging out with Rider and Ainsley was normal. Something a million people probably did every day, because they were actually living life, but it was a first for me—a huge first. It was my best friend and it was the guy...the guy who’d been my best friend and who now, despite everything, felt like something deeper, richer and more intricate, hanging out together.It felt important.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal.

~ Carlos Fuentes

In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.

~ Craig Groeschel

Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set.

~ Christina Engela

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

~ Isidor Isaac Rabi

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 have lips.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

I mean, I tried to change, I did, everybody tries to change, Michael. Not just the queerboys. You look in the mirror and all you see is what's wrong, I'm not _this_ enough or I'm not _that_ enough, and you spend your whole life trying to fix yourself, because you just want to be okay inside your head, you know?I know you know this, Michael, that's why you're here. You're looking for the fix. Yeah, that's why they call it a fix. Because you think you're broken. Only you're not--that broken feeling? That's normal. That's how you know you're normal. If you're not feeling it, you really are broken, that's the joke

~ David Gerrold

I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.

~ Wataru Watari

But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not broken because you’re quiet. It’s okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.

~ Jenn Granneman

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

~ Jim Butcher

Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.

~ Holly Bourne

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

~ Christopher Barzak

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

~ Edward Furlong