“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.” WayShouldChildrenDoeStillsBookSoulFeelingsJobsNightWishFeltNovelTakenStupidNormalAdultsTwentiesSevenKillingHatedUsaUsualRescuePublishersDay And NightManuscriptsDamnationDrudgery Author:Tanith Lee
“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.” MenHumansBornHuman BeingsExistenceViolenceConditionsNormalEatingConscienceFellowsKillingFleshFellow ManBarbarismAbhorrent Book:Why We Can't Wait Source: Why We Can't Wait
“The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from planned lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, mountaintop removal is killing families throughout Appalachia, and oil/mining companies continue to denigrate Native American and indigenous rights throughout the world (see North Dakota Pipeline presently). This is horrific - and yet we somehow consider it normal.” WorldMadeWaterCompanyRightsSeeingDyingNormalDrinkingEnvironmentalKillingOilNativeNative AmericanCatastropheIndigenousMichiganPoisoningHorrificRemovalMiningDrinking WaterPipelineDakotaAppalachiaFrackingNorth Dakota Author:Alexander Weinstein
“In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.” WayMadeStillsShowsMightLeftStarsTalkingOfficeNormalKillingFinalsCelebrateStretchingOld Days Author:Rob Sheffield
“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.” PurposeProcessWealthNormalEuropeMachinesKillingProductiveRegimesColossalShort Lived Author:James Buchan
“It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)” ResponsibilityMonthsNormalTwentiesYeahKillingExcuseEightReverseExcuse MeArtemisPmsCranky Book:Devil May Cry Source: Devil May Cry
“After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go running and not because I'd just been on a killing spree.” RunningNormalKillingCoffeePretending Book:Magical Thinking: True Stories Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
“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.” MenWantGirlBabyHusbandNormalKillingThoughtfulBreastsRoyalHandsomeClingingThugAnkles Book:Graceling Source: Graceling