"Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy."
— Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely)

"It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural."
— Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

"If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you"
— Vincent O'Sullivan (The next room)

"My whole life I wanted to be normal. Everybody knows there's no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only messy, inconsistant, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our own lives. But when I think about what I have, what I strived to reach my whole life, it's not the biggest or best or easiest or prettiest or most anything. It's not the Manor or the laundry closet. Not the multi-million dollar inheritance or the poorhouse. It's not superstardom or unemployment. It's family and love and safety. It's bravery and hope. It's work and laughter and imperfection. It's my normal."
— Tori Spelling

"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."
— Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors: A Memoir)

"I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal."
— Bill Rodgers

"'What do you think it is to be normal?'
'Why in the world would you want to be?' she says.
'I don't know. I guess that's the problem.'
'I don't think normal is that great.'
'But so many people choose it,' I reply.
'I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.'
'Well, why do we choose the hard road?'"
— Patrick Jones (Nailed)

"It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet."
— Ina May Gaskin (Ina May's Guide to Childbirth)

"It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor."
— Ina May Gaskin (Ina May's Guide to Childbirth)

"The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are!" "
— Stephen Cosgrove (Leo the Lop)

"Normal is just a setting on your dryer"
— Annie Jones

"Short is short
and Tall is Tall
You are what you are
That is All!"
— Stephen Cosgrove (Memily)

"Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise."
— Peggy Vincent (Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife)

" The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. "
— Karen Horney

"In no way can we improve a normal pregnancy and labour in a healthy woman; we can only change it, but not for the better."
— G. J. Kloosterman

"It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor."
— Ina May Gaskin (Ina May's Guide to Childbirth)

"Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?"
— Cristina Marrero