“What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”

“I've got tons of things I don't understand about myself. We're both normal "ordinary”

“Lo que nos hace personas normales es saber que no somos normales.”

“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”

“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.”

“And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are happening all around us, all the time, but most of them don't attract our attention and we just let them go by. It's like fireworks in the daytime. You might hear a faint sound, but even if you look up at the sky you can't see a thing. But if we're really hoping something may come true it may become visible, like a message rising to the surface. Then we're able to make it out clearly, decipher what it means. And seeing it before us we're surprised and wonder at how strange things like this can happen. Even though there's nothing strange about it.”

“If there are this many visible parts of my body that are worse than normal people's, then if I start considering other aspects — personality, brains, athleticism, things of this sort — the list will be endless.”