“When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.”
“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”
“On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch.”
“It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.”
“If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.”
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”