Quotes from Anything But Typical

“Romance goes like this:
Boy gets girl.
Boy loses girl.
Boy gets girl again.
The end.
It can't be any other way.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do.
And if you don't—
If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel.
And then they make the assumption—
That you must not feel anything at all. ”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“Sometimes there is nothing to hold me together.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.
But I might feel lucky this day and avoid the sticks and branches scratching and pulling at me. ”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems. ”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important.
Like sticks and stones.
But they are wrong.
Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell. Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, quote from Anything But Typical

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