N Quotes
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“Normal' is a dryer setting.”
Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel
“Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes you see the real world. Not just in the studio or at concerts. I live it up as normal as I can.”
“Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.”
Source: Graceling
“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”
Source: King Dork
“Normal? What's that?" "How you really look." "Can you take off all your clothes?" Okay weirdest thing ever-I just asked myself to take off all my clothes. It doesn't get much creepier. "Why on earth would I do that?" "You asked me to be naked; I thought it was only fair.”
Source: Paranormalcy
“normalcy? an answer to a crossword puzzle question my body bears the strain of a suicide wannabe the look in my eye turns people away humanity frightens so easily that the words bubble to the top of the lobotomized”
Source: The Napalmed Soul
“Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.”
“Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.”
Source: I Am Legend
“Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)”
Source: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“Normalcy will never amount to amazing.”
“Normalising and neglecting “mental suffering” has become a norm of our normal society. Shattered soul— a misfit, sadistic, lonely, depressed—is thrown into dark, chaotic dungeons to keep the society safe and sane. Isn’t it ironical? The normal society, which labels you as an abnormal—shamelessly discredits you, alienates you—exiles you—destroys your “self”—splits it into a labyrinth of “selves”—curses you with a specific self for specific space— leaves no choice for the helpless you, except the never-ending struggle. I think—when an individual has physical illness, we provide required medical care, if we don’t, we are “inhumane, cruel and apathetic”. Isn’t it “inhumane, cruel and apathetic”, if we neglect and normalise the mental breakdown of another individual, and just shrug it off!
Think, Think, Think. When did you stop thinking? Why did you stop thinking? What made you stop thinking? How blessed you’re that your mind is at “peace”!
When I started this never-ending and ever-troubling over-thinking? Why I can’t stop over-thinking? What has catalysed this over-thinking? Isn’t it a curse that my mind is never at peace!”
“Normality does not exist. There is no such a thing as normal.
The social norms that guide most people are not always normal for everyone. Behaviours and actions that are abnormal for most people may be considered normal for others, so therefore normality does not exist. Stay true to yourself; never be ashamed of doing what feels right to you at any giving moment, decide what feels right to you and do it. Don’t be normal, be yourself.”
Source: Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition
“Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.”
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
“Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary.”
Source: The Elementals
“Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.”
“Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Normality is the new eccentric.”
Source: Killosophy
“Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.”
“Normality is way overrated.”
Source: Tether
“Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death”
“Normality? Keeping one's insanity a secret.”
Source: The New Land
“Normality may be a hallucination, but it's a collective trip, and it takes a lot of energy to come down.”
Source: Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World
“Normality seemed suspicious to him. He avoided smart routes, healthy decisions, and standard trajectories. Andrei fancied the forsaken, the dreadful, the dusty. He intentionally said yes to what other people said no to. "There must be something worthwhile," he always thought, "in the apparently worthless, seemingly dangerous, and painfully obvious.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Normality takes one all the way to the Self!”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.”
“Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.”
Source: Middlesex: A Novel
“Normalizar el papel de la mujer en cualquier ámbito y exactamente a la misma altura que el hombre.”
Source: Mujeres de Ghibli
“Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.”
“Normalize doing nothing and being fine with it.”
“Normalize not believing everything you hear. Normalize fact checking.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“Normalize not caring about your status. Life is not a competition.”
“Normalize not jumping into marriage. It's ok to be single, ya dig. There are no rules or laws to fit the stereotypical ideas that everyone should be married. Quit. Plus, have you seen the divorce rate?”
“Normalize privacy as a sacred ritual.”
Source: Survival Tips for the Marginalized
“Normalizing Case Specific AI Use
(Naskaristana 2663-2666)
Don't waste your time on the dilemma of,
to use or not to use ai, ask instead,
how can you use ai in your particular field,
without compromising your integrity!
It's not about avoiding ai,
it's about delegating menial tasks to ai -
fire, steam, electricity, internet, ai, these
are all tools, sooner or later you will adopt it,
and this comes from a person whose literature
was heisted without consent to train algorithms, among many other living writers.
Sure, unlike electricity and internet,
the origin of gen-ai is downright dubious,
so much so that even bombing these ai companies
would not be unjustified, just like bombing america
would be a great humanitarian initiative, but that
won't solve the exploitation problem in the long run -
so we'd have to find meaningful alternatives
to deal with such contraptions of heinous origins,
instead of just freaking out,
whether it's algorithm or america.
AI slop is still slop,
American history is still a crimescene,
therefore we have to deslopify ai,
and disinfect america of its
foundational knack for terrorism.
Also, one more thing, ai is a radically new territory,
even the makers of ai don't know what they're doing,
so don't expect to figure out everything overnight,
don't be too hard on yourself pressured by hypocrites;
the idea is not to outsource your ideas,
whether to ai or to hypocritical primates,
so take your time, and figure out your own
ethics of ai in case specific context.
Use ai to be more meaningful than productive -
for example, bring inspiring figures to life,
and make them have discourse with each other,
but always maintain their original texts.
Or like I recently (March, 2026) used ai to produce a few audio materials, based on some of the sonnets, these tracks sound like music but they are not, even though the lyrics are mine, it's not music until I pick up the guitar and sing myself, or some real musician does; I see these ai audio tracks as accessibility extensions - in fact, accessibility could be the greatest boon of ai.
The canon is the art, the audios are just more courier,
both the ai tracks and my own voice recordings.
Main point is this:
music without musician is not music,
poetry without poet is not poetry,
art without artist is not art,
simulation without experience is delusion.
You can 3d print furniture,
but you cannot 3d print art -
and alas, only a true artist
can know what this means!”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.”
“Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.”
“Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.”
Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“Normally as an actress you're constantly worried that people think you don't look good enough. It's just like an unnecessary stress that's just frustrating.”
“Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.”
“Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus them. You spend your entire time as an audience member looking at the back of the conductor so you're already aware of a certain kind of hierarchy when you are there: there are people who can do it, who are on stage, and you aren't on stage so you can't do it. There's also a conductor who is telling the people who are onstage exactly what to do and when to do it and so you know that person is more important than the people on stage.”
“Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he's inside the black box.”
Source: Unwind
“Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their brain with blood. It waits in alleys and metro stops. After the sun goes down plugs are pulled by white-clad guardians and death is invited into an antiseptic room.
But in the country death comes, uninvited, during the day. It takes fishermen in their longboats. It grabs children by the ankles as they swim. In winter it calls them down a slope too steep for their budding skills, and crosses their skies at the tips. It waits along the shore where snow met ice not long ago but now, unseen by sparkling eyes, a little water touches the shore, and the skater makes a circle slightly larger than intended. Death stands in the woods with a bow and arrow at dawn and dusk. And it tugs cars off the road in broad daylight, the tires spinning furiously on ice or snow, or bright autumn leaves.”
Source: Still Life
“Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.”
“Normally, Donkey would have pushed them away, even run to escape their touch, but then Molly laid both hands on her face, and Donkey felt a soothing warmth, a settling. And after that, all the hands in the room were on her, and it felt like the eureka! of discovery. They were no longer five separate bodies in a kitchen but five flowers growing from the same root; whether she hated or loved them wasn't relevant to their work together. Donkey's vision blurred until they all seemed wrapped up together in fog and spiderwebs. Any talk of Donkey being special and precious didn't mean anything, because she was not even separate from them, just the youngest part of the family monster--- and a monster was what it would take to cure Rosie.
Donkey knew now why Herself dreamed of having her daughters gathered together--- because such distance between the parts of a whole was unnatural.”
Source: The Waters
“Normally for work I will fly business class.”
“Normally, I admire your kick-in-the-face style, Lieutenant. But try that with this, and the two of us will be making love in heaven tonight."
"Heaven wouldn't have either of us”
Source: Loyalty in Death
“Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.”
“Normally, I avoided baking like it was… well, influenza, but for Christmas cookies, I’d sacrifice”
Source: In Thy Tender Care