“That was how I was going to get things back to normal—by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I’ll try anything to avoid facing reality.”
“Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.”
“It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.”
“What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.”
“When people who aren't normal try to make their lives normal it doesn work.”
“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”