#normalcy

First, you hand over some basics--overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding. ↗

— Julianna Baggott

#love

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#ago #am #bills #headed #i

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#been #city #first #i #literature

I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers. ↗

— J. Merridew

#normalcy #normality #perfection #dreams

Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right up there with lockers. In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it's so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all. ↗

— Kiersten White

#lend #paranormalcy #right

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. ↗

— Warren G. Harding

#america #healing #need #normalcy #present

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#back #breaks #came #i #i came

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#camp #hungry #kind #normalcy #particular