“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.” FeelsLooksLongMadeDreamWantedBeautifulUsedGirlFunWishStuffHairNormalOppositesAbsolutesAmerican DreamSkinnyLightersBeautiful Girl Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.” HeartHardMotherHairCostNormalMouthsLovelyBitterTallVeinsLawnsPuddles Book:We Were Liars Source: We Were Liars
“You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.” ThinkingWantShouldCuttingHairNormal Author:Joey Bishop
“The other thing is that I'm a pretty moody guy, but no one really wants to see a normal-looking guy complain about things or talk about being unhappy. That's hard. Most people are like, 'Well, you have all your hair and you're tall, so why are you unhappy?' That can be limiting.” PeopleWantWellsHardGuyHairNormalComplainingUnhappyTallComplaintsMoodyBeing Unhappy Author:Gary Gulman
“Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.” TryingLooksSometimesChoicesChanceHairNormal Author:Randall Park
“You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair and lovely clothes and be able to walk in heels. And I thought that once I did all of that stuff that my life would begin.” KnowsAbleWantedBeautifulStuffWalksHairNormalClothesLovelyHeelsSmoothBeing Beautiful Author:Caitlin Moran
“When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to "look normal."” IfsTryingLooksHomeLanguageHairNormalBlueContactWhitenessBleaching Author:Vivek Shraya
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning” FeelsMindHumansRealityHuman BeingsAbilityCompassionGoneBloodHairNormalSkinsVictimCornersFleshIntenseCharacteristicsRoughOf My MindResemblancePsychoImitatingDepersonalization Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.” KnowsAsksFatherMillionsKnow HowHavensPaintingHairNormalDollarsRaisedBoundariesAsk MeMillion DollarsStrandsPubic Hair Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random. The teenage daughter is my favourite, because I just had her go through this Goth phase. She's really kind of nerdy and she just became a concert violinist, which is pretty huge for the family. And she got into private school. But she started wearing black lipstick and she dyed her hair purple. It's pretty huge.” PeopleKnowsKindPlaySchoolGamesNamesFunBlackHugeHairNormalDaughterBoringConcertsFavouritePhasesTeenagePurpleMundaneLipstickNormal LifeGothNerdyPrivate SchoolViolinistMundane LifeSimsWearing BlackTeenage Daughter Author:Gerard Way
“Hellooo.” I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.” She reached out and scraped her short nails over my arm. I snatched my arm back. “Ow.” Not body makeup.” She frowned and peered at the roots of my hair. “A good die-job or you’ve really got blue hair.” For now,” I said. “I’m half Drow.” She raised an eyebrow. Dark Elves.” Uh-huhhhh.” During the day I look normal, like you.” With an amused look she held up her arm, showing her dark, golden skin. “You’re Kenyan and Puerto Rican?” LooksSaidBodyJobsDiesDarkHalfLike YouHairArmsNormalRootsSkinsBlueRaisedGoldenMakeupNailsEyebrowsAmusedAmethystBlue Hair Author:Cheyenne McCray