Normal Family Quotes

“However, I had begun to recognize that I shared many traits with both of my parents, despite my resolutions to myself that I would be nothing like either of them.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“As children, we inherit our parents’ unresolved psychic trauma, whether through genetics or osmosis,”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what happens after we die,” she said to me with a loving smile. “What happens here on earth is mysterious enough.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“In return,” she concluded, “he has agreed to pay for you to complete high school at Archer.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“Jessica’s father has offered to adopt Kaitlyn,” my mother blurted out after a long pause. I just stared at my mother with a blank expression.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“With money tight, Mom explored moving Kaitlyn and me to a small, off-the-grid town in Colorado called Crestone, which she told us was the “spiritual epicenter” of the planet.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“The Cryobank was the first sperm bank in the world to make direct deliveries to people’s houses.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“She had zero boundaries and seemed to think she could just bulldoze people into doing whatever she wanted. When she made him place his signature on the birth certificate, and each time she made him swear he’d never donate to anyone else, Jeffrey had tried to be understanding. But this—this! Going on TV and talking about him as if he were just a vending machine for sperm, with his picture being blasted to the nation without his permission?”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“Unbeknownst to her, the same month I was born, her perfect, “blue-blooded” Jeffrey, the father of her baby, was the centerfold of Playgirl magazine, appearing on the inside in a several-page, full-color, completely nude spread as “Mr. November 1984.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“I realized these boxes weren’t memory boxes at all, but a heavily curated version of my life, the way my mother hoped I would remember it.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

“This reunion is my mother’s worst nightmare. We have known about the siblings—that there are anywhere between three dozen and a few hundred—for more than a decade, since the shocking day the story appeared on the front page of the New York Times. Since then, Mom’s coping strategy has been to pretend the whole thing never happened rather than face the reality that she was partially responsible for it.”
― Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings