"What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal."

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

[...] extremes — whether good or bad — don't fit into society's definition of normality

‘Normal’ is different for every generation.

If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.

"Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

“There’s no such thing as normal people, I said, a desperate flailing. “There’s just people, and some of them are miserable, and some of them are happy, and you’ve the same right to be happy as any of them—no more and no less.

Everyone is different from each other, but that doesn’t mean everyone should be indifferent to each other.

Being normal is boring!

Screw normal. You know why? 'Cause if you're normal, the crowd will accept you. But if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader.

Все всегда оказываются не такими, как от них ждешь.