“I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.” IfsKindBodyFeltNormalOddEmptinessLackingDetachmentFrailClumsyFragilityNumbnessCoordination Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in the class, there are already a lot of children from different ethnic backgrounds so the reality is there. I don't have to shove it in people's face. It's just there and it's normal.” PeopleLooksChildrenDifferentRealRealitySchoolFacesClassNormalReal LifeBackgroundsOddBureaucracyLaboratoryEthnic Background Author:Philippe Falardeau
“It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.” IfsMenShouldMadeWantedGirlChurchTaughtNormalShould HaveMedicineExtraordinaryOddGet AwayPhysiciansRejectedEnthusiasticHealerDoubtedNun Book:Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION Source: Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION
“It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.” WayFeelsHandsEyeAbleEarthPainUsedAsksProcessDifficultRealizingFiveOur LivesTroubleFeetGrewNormalHappeningsCapacityFingersFamiliarOddNew WaysCompositionEnigmaKernelDifficult QuestionsFive FingersFamiliar Places Author:Donald Miller