Normal Rules Don't Apply Quotes

“Sometimes he had the feeling that he existed only on the fringes of other people’s lives, not at the heart of his own.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated.
"I'm a girl, actually," the dog said.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“Art was dangerous, it gave you ideas.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“Pulled out all the stops -- quilting meadows with hedgerows, carving glaciers in Patagonia, fretworking the coast of Norway.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“It wasn't the birds, then. Or the insects. It was the people. It started with Cain and Abel, and before you could say "incest" you had the CIA.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“Pamela had been thoroughly divorced for some years now. "Happily so!" she would declare gaily if asked. Sometimes she said, "Best thing that ever happened to me!" with equal exuberance. Neither statement was particularly true, but she was a great believer in exclamation marks.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“I am the F-word," Florence muttered.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“Someone screamed and Terry said, "I'm having a heart attack." "You're not," Kitty said. Knowing better. The pigeon, on the other hand, was already perched hopefully atop the pearly gates, wondering why there was nothing beyond but a featureless desert.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“She liked bright, sparkling things. She had a bit of magpie in her. Also some Indian elephant, a morsel of bat, a scrap of sloth and a few strands of wolf. All useful on occasion.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“I’m trying … to re-create the fractal in fictive form—an endlessly bifurcating narrative, based not on making a choice but on making all possible choices.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“From the lips of Franklin: ‘I’m trying … to re-create the fractal in fictive form—an endlessly bifurcating narrative, based not on making a choice but on making all possible choices.”
― ATKINSON KATE, Normal rules don't apply