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  1. Markus Zusak _ Underdog

    I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
    book-quotelifeordinarystory

  2. Daphne du Maurier _ Don't Look Now and Other

    It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
    book-quoteloveordinarymother

  3. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    ...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
    book-quotelifeordinary

  4. E.M. Forster _ Howards End

    One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.
    book-quoteordinarylivenothing

  5. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

    All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters
    ordinarysuperstitionsupernatural

  6. Rebecca McNutt _ Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog

    Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren't the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary," Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully. "Sydney Tar Ponds," Mearth added, "I've had so many ordinary people as friends in my life that by now I've forgotten all their names. At first it was difficult… very sad… to see them always leaving, dying, disappearing, ignoring, but after a while I realized that they weren't worth the trouble. I'd rather be in the company of other Personifications. At least they aren't always dropping dead like houseflies or sailing away to parts unknown. Nil sa saol seo ach ceo, i ni bheimid beo, ach seal beag gearr. Wouldn't you agree?" "No," Alecto told her. "I think you're insane.
    book-quotehumandeathordinary

  7. Rebecca McNutt _ Mandy and Alecto: The

    Alecto… what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth's super 8 films, those powers of yours… how would they react?" "I don't know," said Alecto, "but ordinary people like a show, especially when it's a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery… probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films… they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess." "All joking aside, Alecto.…" "Who is joking, Mandy Valems?
    book-quotehumorordinaryjoke

  8. Rebecca McNutt _ Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog

    There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naïve at times, she wasn't stupid.
    book-quoteordinaryfriendtalk

  9. Anne Lamott _ Grace (Eventually): Thoughts

    I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.
    book-quoteordinaryself

  10. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
    book-quotelifetruthordinary

  11. Mitch Albom _ The Five People You Meet in

    It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.
    book-quotelifeordinaryheaven

  12. Mitch Albom _ For One More Day

    You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
    book-quoteimportantordinarytime
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