{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!","author":"Gaston Leroux","tags":["domesticity","erik","goals","normalcy","phantom-of-the-opera"],"id":5943,"author_id":"Gaston+Leroux"},{"text":"Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.).","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["normal","normalcy","war"],"id":31199,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"},{"text":"As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["acceptance","humor","normalcy","relief"],"id":51826,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.","author":"J. Merridew","tags":["boredom","normalcy","normality","perfection"],"id":67396,"author_id":"J.+Merridew"},{"text":"Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.","author":"Holly Black","tags":["books","normalcy","sad","you-re-not-special"],"id":70754,"author_id":"Holly+Black"},{"text":"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["control","normalcy","predictability","stability"],"id":71986,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["accountability","accountable","commonality","commonplace","desire","excellence","exempt","exemption","exert","exertion","lethargy","normalcy","weakness"],"id":79636,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her: 'It’s the message. I try to have a normal life and look at things in a normal way, under very abnormal circumstances. That’s always going to be my main goal, that’s always what I’m going to strive for, to be a normal human being. It’s interesting because you’re put in really abnormal situations. You have an abnormal-size microscope covering your life and everything you do. You look at the idea of being 22, that’s when you’re supposed to be out there living and being selfish and making mistakes and messing up. If I mess up once, it’s a headline everywhere.","author":"Taylor Swift","tags":["famous","girls","girly","headlines","inspirational","interesting","life","mess-up","normalcy","red","swifties"],"id":81325,"author_id":"Taylor+Swift"},{"text":"The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous.","author":"C.G. Jung","tags":["insanity","lunacy","normalcy"],"id":106204,"author_id":"C.G.+Jung"},{"text":"Yeah. She'd manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She'd talked rationally about putting people's brains into computers. This was a normal day. No wonder she was screwed up.","author":"Rachel Caine","tags":["kiss-of-death","morganville-vampires","normal","normalcy","perspective","rachel-caine","vampires"],"id":124690,"author_id":"Rachel+Caine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}