#norm

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#different #four #gay #i #i wish

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beliefs #books #care #changes #circle

I change, like every single normal person. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#every #i #like #normal #normal person

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#able #behavior #change #human #human society

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#culture #goes #itself #norms #outside

She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, “They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream? ↗

— Poppet

#vampire-romance #dreams

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. ↗