“If it had been that simple all along, I thought, I wish she'd given me clear instructions before, then I wouldn't have had to go to such lengths to find out how to be normal.” Human NatureNormalcy Book:Convenience Store Woman Source: Convenience Store Woman
“So that was it: now that she thinks he's "one of us" she can lecture him. She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality--however messy--is far more comprehensible” SocietyOutcastNormalcy Book:Convenience Store Woman Source: Convenience Store Woman