“You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)”

“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”

“You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.”

“To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

“There is nothing remotely ordinary about you, accept it. I'll show you what you are.""And what am I?""Mine. I will tear open the sky to make you see it.”

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”