“I don't normally wear armor, but then, I don't normally have to face an army of Iron fey, either.”
“Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.”
“I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)”
“I don't wear armor. I don't carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination.”
“What do you think it is to be normal?'Why in the world would you want to be?' she says.I don't know. I guess that's the problem.'I don't think normal is that great.'But so many people choose it,' I reply.I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.'Well, why do we choose the hard road?”
“I don't think normal exists.”