“To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.”
“there's nothing ordinary in the living of each day.”
“Out of a still, clear day, the wind suddenly picked up.It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making him think that maybe she hadn't minded his devotion, after all.”
“Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.”
“Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die”
“The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.”