“There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.”
“I'd rather be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things, than being an extraordinary person doing ordinary things.”
“What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.”
“There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.”
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
“There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.”