Quotes from Something like Normal

“Maybe it’s time to find a new normal.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Here's the thing: the strings are already attached.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“I don't know if my life will ever be completely normal again, but something like normal is a good start.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“When it's your business, I'll let you know.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“...chicks are naturally attracted to the scent of badass”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Maybe someday we'll see each other again, Charlie. For real I mean. Until then, save me a seat, okay?
-Solo”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“And, Jesus, she's a good kisser. So good I want to beat the hell out of whoever taught her.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Yeah, well, I don't really want to kick you when you're down, but mostly for some crazy reason"- her face tilts up and she gives me this shy little grin-"I think you might be worth it.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“You should probably stay away from me," I say, resting my head on my knees. "I'm a mess.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Does this public display of affection with my daughter on my front porch mean I'm stuck with you now?" he asks, opening the screen door for Harper.
I'm not sure if I should laugh, so I hold back. "I'm afraid so.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“She beams at me and it’s almost enough to make up for the fact that I’m harder than trigonometry right now. Almost.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Her green eyes meet mine in the Guinness mirror behind the bar and it feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room. I’ve never slept with this girl, but she was the first I remember wanting.

Harper Gray.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“That pretty much sums up our relationship: I have it. He wants it. He gets it. He ruins it.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Welcome home. Now leave me alone.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“I thought I was having a fucking stroke," I say as they free me from my coated elastic prison, making them laugh even harder.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

“Hey back,' I say, my voice low beside her ear. She shivers. I love that.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal

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Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.

But every one of those stars is a sun, often far more brilliant and glorious than the small, nearby star we call the Sun. And many--perhaps most--of those alien suns have planets circling them. So almost certainly there is enough land in the sky to give every member of the human species, back to the first ape-man, his own private, world-sized heaven--or hell.

How many of those potential heavens and hells are now inhabited, and by what manner of creatures, we have no way of guessing; the very nearest is a million times farther away than Mars or Venus, those still remote goals of the next generation. But the barriers of distance are crumbling; one day we shall meet our equals, or our masters, among the stars.

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Why not, indeed? Here is one possible answer to that very reasonable question. But please remember: this is only a work of fiction.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”
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