Relatively Normal Quotes

“My job doesn’t define me. The people I love define me. And if Nan’s aneurysm taught me one thing, it’s that those people are getting older, and their lives are getting shorter. I don’t want to be a full day’s journey away from them. I want to make the most of our time together and enjoy the absolute crap out of them while I have the chance.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“When I get to the kitchen, preparations are in full swing. My mom tends to the Cullen skink, which is a thick haddock soup. Nan works on the tatties, herring, and black pudding. My job is the clootie dumpling— essentially, flour, bread crumbs, dried fruit, suet, sugar, spices and milk, all wrapped up and baked in a clootie, or cloth. We work harmoniously as we have been preparing this meal together for close to three decades. My”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“We don’t say a word to each other. We just sit with our auras bumping up against each other in silence.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“We sit silently offering each other our support. That’s when I realize a family is like a stew. We’re all just a bunch of ingredients, simple items on our own. Then we get thrown into the stewpot and start to blend together. Our edges soften as we mix with the other ingredients in such a way that it’s hard to recognize what we were before becoming part of the whole.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Auld Lang Syne” isn’t traditionally a New Year’s song, like we’ve grown to think of it. An old Scotsman gave it to Robert Burns in 1788 to write down and make sure it got passed on. As I look around our Thanksgiving table, there’s a lot of “old time sake” to be had, so the song seems more appropriate this year than most, even if it does dredge up a lot of the past that I wish had remained there. When it’s over, and we’ve unchained ourselves from one another, I serve the pudding and pass the dishes around the table. I take a double helping, because I only get it once a year and I made it so, why the heck shouldn’t I?”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Whoever said a month’s paycheck was too much to spend on a wedding dress clearly never saw you in this one. I feel like a proud mother right now.” Jazz heaves”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to reap; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather your stones together.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Life is a roller-coaster, and for the moment I’m comfortable with that. The highs are so very high, they just might make the lows worth the journey.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“I feel like crawling back into bed and going to sleep for a week.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“It’s like the heavens have opened up and dropped a load of bricks on my head.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Everyone’s crazy in their own way. What makes two people compatible is finding someone whose crazy complements yours and vice versa.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to reap; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather your stones together. That verse is so universally relatable. It’s the whole human journey wrapped up into one gigantic run-on sentence. I feel like I’ve lived it all in the last week, except for the last part. That’s why I’m going home. It’s time to gather my stones together.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Kitty Cat, life is about feeling. It’s about the ride. Do you want to be on a merry-go-round your whole life, just traveling in the same circle over and over again? Or do you want to risk it all and hit the roller coaster, where you’re going to feel all the highs and lows that come with the journey?”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal