Now that she piled them up in a basket and threw them into the washing machine on Friday evenings, she had come to see this, the heaping of dirty underwear, as normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But who knew when electricity would get back to normal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The heat at home was set to a normal sixty-seven degrees and there were no inflatable flamingos on the porch. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And it was all about this normal white family. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It sounds like they’re having a normal conversation about the weather and the crops. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high red sandstone walls were far too lofty to be scaled by any normal creature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It went back the way it had come, and soon its noise faded into the normal sounds of the bush. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unpleasant loop entrances serve a purpose—normals tend to avoid them, so we peculiars have them all to ourselves.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In milder cases, he sometimes counseled that a soldier be discharged from his normal duties and given desk work instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had his normal faraway affect and distinct air of melancholy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s normal to want to sleep after a hard workout. What’s not normal is that you never nap, Simone. Who on earth has so much energy?” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She blinked, and her eyes were back to normal—or at least, what they had been before. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But why can’t it be something? Every day millions of kids around this country do millions of normal activities, and they have a great time at it. Why can’t we?” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Why couldn't she come into the mall and browse like a normal woman? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just normal instructions for latchkey kids in Garden Heights. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He’s always known part of her resents their mom for the position they occupy in the world, for not having a normal life, for taking herself away from them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Everything is looking perfectly normal. We are expecting a perfectly normal delivery, Mrs. Ganguli.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The normal cells which make up our bodies are tiny objects, five thousand of which would fit on the head of a pin,” he said, his voice a bit too loud and stilted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If there were a break in the suit, the normal world would vanish, merging with the hot world, and you would be exposed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled her forebear off her wrist and switched it from a shield to its normal hover mode. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It is so weird seeing Coach West in regular clothes, shopping at the mall like a normal person. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“A cat,” she said, because that was a normal thing to say. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Crawl through thirteen doors, and everything will return to normal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I wish we could live in a nice little house somewhere. I’d love to go to school like other kids. Make friends. Live a normal, ordinary life.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My dad even asked me, “Why can’t you just be a normal teacher?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was eerie, spine-tingling, unearthly; it lifted the hair on Harry’s scalp and made his heart feel as though it was swelling to twice its normal size. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But Ben’s a different kind of man than Cillian, a kind kind of man that makes him not normal in Prentisstown. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances that would not be considered skilled driving. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed sort of equilibrium, with atoms and their particles scattered around in an amorphous muddle. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm waiting to hear Max announce it's over and that she's back to her normal self. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I asked her, doing my best to sound like a normal person as we walked side by side. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Amsterdam is a crowded city, where even in normal times it's difficult to find housing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I cannot emphasize this enough: It was a completely normal rap song, except in Swedish. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You would not judge the child as a normal baby?” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By the time it returns to normal, the white-haired thief is well gone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of people wave at me like normal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It was a normal checkup, I told her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Of course I couldn’t have worn a normal tie today. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And Nick and Abby are back to their obnoxiously happy normal, holding hands in English class and discussing corsages over lunch. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Why were they acting so normal, Jaja and Mama, as if they did not know what had just happened? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally filled his lungs with water, it felt just like normal breathing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Natalie is rubbing her chin on her shoulder, her chin on her shoulder, faster than normal, as if she’s upset too. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t like spaghetti when it’s normal, let alone congealed. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

On a normal night they would split up and divide the city a hundred ways between them, but not tonight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel rode Arion, who had recovered enough to carry one person at normal horse speed, though he cursed about his aching hooves all the way downhill. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

All normal kids who didn’t live like gypsies probably did. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Is getting evicted “ordinary”? It sure doesn’t seem normal to me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Because a sister can’t just ask a guy out like it’s some normal thing, girls have gone to great lengths to make sure that their Sadie Hawkins proposition is the most elaborate. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In normal tones at first, then louder and louder until he was yelling it “I’m hungry, I’m hungry, I’m hungry.” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to say “I like you, Charlie,” or something normal. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why doesn’t this office keep normal milk around? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We sat there quietly until his breathing returned to normal. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed no value on normal things so it was impossible to punish her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks tinge an even deeper pink than normal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In a normal situation, Lima said, they would have been arraigned properly, given a phone call and an attorney, and would have been out on bail within days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Wait till he hears that new motor purring in Rose—he’ll want to get back fishing and acting like normal again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They treat me like a normal kid just helping out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s no such thing as normal in Logan County! How could you forget that?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Because normal parents would be freaked out if their kids started to, like, throw fire?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He’d relaxed into his normal self now and was describing the new stop-motion video he was in the middle of making. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wore jeans, a white T-shirt, and flip-flops, like he was just a normal college-age guy, but his eyes told the truth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

You feel it coming on halfway through a shift or later, and you can interpret it the normal way as a symptom of a kind of low-level illness, curable with immediate rest. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life was back to normal, where everything sucked. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I understand your concern, Mrs. Winchell. Honestly, I do. But this is Mia’s normal way of perceiving the world. She can learn to compensate for some things, but we can’t ‘cure’ her. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it’s normal for a kid to want to know that about his dad?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Here—I grabbed you and Malia blueberry muffins at the train station—the ones you like. And I have lunch money for you. I promise tomorrow things will be more normal.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mom had always been there for me, always tried to make things normal for me, even with the gods and monsters and stuff. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was counting on our threesome getting back to normal. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

For some reason he’d expected the weird sky to throw all normal plans out the window. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid of being alone,” she whispered, as though she were afraid that normal speaking would bring down some precarious barricade inside her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

You have to admit: this is not something you expect a normal person to say. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were walking normal, but they looked like they’d been burned up and hit with stuff. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think it’s normal to get what you want all the time,” said Jule. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One week I faked an entire dream journal, making my dreams sound bland and simple, the way a normal person’s should be. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It clings to the familiar twenty- four-hour cycle, so that the astronaut becomes sleepy when it is his normal bedtime in Houston, regardless of what he sees out his window. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike weightlessness, it is easy to simulate the opposite condition, where the body “weighs” many times more than normal. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the face of William’s insomnia and growing tension, Elizebeth could do little to help, except to keep their home life as normal as she could. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I hoped Leafie would come soon and assure me it was normal. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The color of my skin turned back to normal. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. I woke up, I put my contacts in like normal, and everything was fine.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Not a bit normal. Who ever heard of pink eyes in a human child?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, to a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun, occasionally peeking out from behind the storm clouds, made the journal look normal, ordinary. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Which, now that he thinks about it, probably isn’t normal? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Most things that seem ridiculous to me are normal there, like when my humanities teacher asked, “Who are the invisible people in our community? Who are the people we, as a society, take for granted?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Second blinked again, and her pupils returned to normal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Max, you know what I mean. I'm the one who's not normal, so don't be so sensitive. If you're not normal, it's only because you're smarter than everyone else. I wish I had your problems." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Poppy told her that had nothing to do with it, she said, “What do you know? Your head is normal sized.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I am not normal, I am not like other girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the initial surprise and happiness from his parents at his being alive—for a week it looked as if they might actually get back together—things rapidly went back to normal. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now everything would be going back to normal, at lunch and with my friends? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how much Dad is trying to keep things normal with his New York City scavenger hunt, no matter how much we all try to laugh at his corny jokes, these tears are here. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Moss had boarded the train in San Francisco that afternoon expecting nothing out of the ordinary, just a normal ride home with his best friend, Esperanza. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“All I want is one normal day—one day to relax.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of being placed, as was normal, in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, it was in the longer wall, opposite the window. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It implies that normal coffee shops are satanic.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Because he’d agree that this was normal, and that that was the problem. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As if it were a sign that things might be returning to normal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not exactly sick, but not exactly normal, either. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Jake said she seemed normal on the phone before she freaked out,” the Colonel said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should move, maybe I should find a different job. Go back to teaching, maybe. Would you like that? You could live in a neighborhood with other kids and have a more normal life.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” Thomas said as he stood up, acting as normal as he could. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

What happens when two normal guys and two normal girls meet in their favorite health-food restaurant? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wrong of course, morbid, stupid; this was the hyper-sensitive behaviour of a neurotic, not the normal happy self I knew myself to be. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She looks to be about his own age, and she wears what can only be called a costume, as they certainly aren’t normal clothes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For undocumented immigrants, past or present, the fear becomes a normal part of our daily lives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That’s when Maniac felt it — pride, for this East End warrior whom Maniac could feel trembling in his arms, scared as any normal kid would be, but not showing it to them. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main principle is that the interior of the space suit is a cocoon housing the normal world, which you bring with you into the hot area. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worker replied in a normal tone, very matter-of-fact. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Shay is squinty-eyed for a bit and then laughs in a way that is louder than normal. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He handed me the sneakers, which looked pretty normal. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We all thought about it for a while, trying to remember the name of the last day when our lives were normal. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“A normal bird doesn’t stay indoors this kind of weather.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

From the doorway, the living room looks almost normal, even though the couch is kind of patchy and faded, and the wallpaper is from the nineties. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The air felt muggier than their normal southern Aprils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And Dawes was in all likelihood a man with a normal social circle, which means that — like most of us — once he left his hometown he probably wouldn’t have known whose door to knock on. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Verne said it was perfectly normal for an actress. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The stand Frank’s son had made for me and all the training I’d done meant I could play in normal competition, rather than signing up for disabled bowls. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to explain now. But I thought you’d have a better chance at a ‘normal’ childhood in the city.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it would be normal for him to eat his food and mine. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to put me to bed, and to wake me only when everything was back to normal. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he looked much more normal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The next Tuesday, I arrived with the normal bags of food—pasta with corn, potato salad, apple cobbler— and something else: a Sony tape recorder. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What bothered me was that everything about the house seemed normal, although I knew it must be chock-full of crazy people. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was just a normal thin piece of pad paper, all yellow and old. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Still, she was the only one of us acting normal. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

You talks normal, but that boy a yourn been keeping his nose in a schoolbook so much he’s started talking like one. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“And also it is important to know things because it makes you special and you can read books that normal people cannot read, such as Ovid's Metamorphosis, which is in Latin.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Seven months of sleepless nights and peering over my shoulder and trying to act normal. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A substance that is not a carcinogen in the ordinary sense may disturb the normal functioning of some part of the body in such a way that malignancy results. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now, he talked to Cleotilde’s friends with an easy friendliness, about the new Chelsea coach, about Big Brother, as if they were all there for something ordinary and normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Do you know how much oxygen you absorb out of the air when you take a normal breath? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t he just want to have a normal life on shore? The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take up my bow and the sheath of normal arrows that Beetee made, knowing they would never let me walk around with the loaded ones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I also know these aren’t normal circumstances,” Doctor Snow says, then turns back to us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It took a full span of days before Ben was his normal, jovial self again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Confronted with the impossible, there was no option but to treat it as normal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

People with genetic predispositions to violence fly off the handle when normal people keep their cool. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A normal hydrogen atom has a nucleus with just one proton and no neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything will be back to normal in a few days,” Bobby Gene agreed. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I expected Amaka to sneer, but she gave me a pair of yellow shorts as if it were normal that I did not have any. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sadness of the kind that makes perfectly normal people into poets. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The attention had shifted and Naheed could feel herself returning to her normal size, but she also felt really bad. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The lurkers were never the same two days running, although they all seemed to share a dislike for normal clothing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances I would not have doubted my ability to do very well in an exam. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores were shuttered, houses were dark, and even the normal din of traffic was a mere murmur. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And believe it or not, he was pretty good, even with the occasional outbursts that, for me, had become so normal that it was like they weren't even happening. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

How was he supposed to act normal in a town that murdered pigeons? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Training classes...on top of school? Will that affect my normal extracurricular activities?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They argue all the way home, Matt complaining that barber supply sales have fallen off, and that their savings are dwindling, Rose screeching back that making Charlie normal is more important than anything else. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A morose cloud had settled around the man’s shoulders, and Emily didn’t know him well enough to understand if that was normal or due to his dwelling on Mr. Griswold. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After we all get to return to normal. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There are no normal restaurants left, at least in our neighborhood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I can see Peeta’s face beginning to return to normal, his eyelid opening, the grimace leaving his mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he seemed more calm and normal than the rest. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will be just as normal as I always was. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Despite his Waffle House meltdown, he’s totally normal on Monday and Tuesday—so normal, it’s almost concerning. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He imagined that if he could lead a normal life with Blanca, one in which she would be waiting for him every evening in a peaceful home, everything would be different. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a routine of theirs, one that felt normal and intimate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We acted like everything was normal, making our sandwiches and wrapping them up like we planned to eat them at school. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She still didn't sound quite normal, but she was making some kind of sense. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a cell has lost its normal respiration it cannot regain it — not in a year, not in a decade or in many decades. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When had I started believing in “normal,” anyway? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And maybe I could have followed up with a line like: Tobias, as long as we’re having a normal conversation, why do you keep acting like such a jerk? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once out of sight they seemed to shrink back to their normal size. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That would be only normal, except that the beauty and the quiet made me slow to respond with resentment, and in my hesitation I lost it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A movement of an object causes a disturbance of the normal motion of the air molecules near the object. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But when he landed on his face, there was a horrible heavy thump and things commenced moving again like they normal do. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was a completely normal kid until he was nine, when his dad died. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We all turned sixteen today, and for any normal girl that would mean raspberry and lemon macarons and tiny pastel blimps and pink champagne and card games. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“That was a long time ago. You seen her. What she look like to you? Somebody nice? Somebody normal?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Pa feels that Vincent's behavior is not “normal” religious passion, he probably doesn’t realize that Vincent’s extreme religious zeal is likely a sign of mental illness. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some days her hands or feet would grow numb while she was doing normal everyday things like driving or working with the kids on their homework. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

To Matt, the sound was as normal as the thunder that sometimes echoed over the hills. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remind myself that things are already going back to normal at school. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, the cellular surgery worked: the droplet of liquid from a normal head was sufficient to force an embryo to grow a head in the position of its tail. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was all the same old normal that had been here for years—the same old normal, just dressed up in a brand-new jacket and tie. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Benji knew he must look like a normal kid—well, a charming kid—coming into the store with maybe twenty dollars in his pocket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, so he should be back to normal in no time,” Ma said, trying to be positive. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The one with negative energy is condemned to be a short-lived virtual particle because real particles always have positive energy in normal situations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re crazy,” said Henry, who, like any normal kid, hated The Treatment. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wished she would come outside and talk to me and make me feel like things were normal, good. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I liked Mr. Morrison, but I wasn’t in the mood to pretend to be a normal girl. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The letter opened with the normal trivial catching-up jokes, but it soon became more serious. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We have a daughter and a son, whom we raised as normal American kids without the burden of my family's past. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For this reason, any normal object is forever confined by relativity to move at speeds slower than the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I involuntarily jump up, then sit down, then jump up again, because this is what normal people do when someone walks into a room, right? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

All of those theories are essentially ways of saying that the criminal is a personality type — a personality type distinguished by an insensitivity to the norms of normal society. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to the normal brain, Algernons had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of the cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m never going to figure it out, any more than a normal person will figure out his or her own existence. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"You're supposed to be unhappy and confused. It means you're normal, well adjusted. This is just going to make it worse, I guarantee it!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But in normal life fluids lost are immediately replaced. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so normal inside, so tidy and calm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when Mom and Dad are arguing, she threatens to pack up our stuff and take me and Abbey out of the Keys to “go start a normal life.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’m having trouble breathing at a normal pace. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Rayburn didn’t bark at the commotion, and Holly wasn’t in her normal spot. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I know. I’m afraid, too. But David is the only bit of normal I have left. Please don’t make me give that up.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After banging on the bottle and proving how normal it is, I hold up a quarter and slap it through the small cut in the water bottle. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All I want is to be the normal girl, with parents who let her date and a house that smells of seasonally appropriate candles and not fried onions. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He began to grow actually proud of his body, and to cherish an intermittent belief that his face also was growing back to normal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To prevent such outbursts, the authorities reversed the normal order of the prisoners preceding the judge into the courtroom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Owing to the pressures of our shared commitment to the ANC and the struggle to end apartheid, we were unable to enjoy a normal family life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nice to be inside the supermarket; it felt normal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For Adah that’s normal, of course, and for that very reason she often gets accused when none of us speaks up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made him sick that someone had ruined everything just as they were on the cusp of feeling somewhat normal. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We’ll be talking and laughing and carrying on like normal, and then, BOOM, we get all serious and sacred and start talking like some English royalty. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now don’t go messing with me at two in the morning, Bull. I’m in no mood. Why in the hell can’t you drive during normal hours?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that means I'm on my way back to some kind of new normal. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mercifully, however, they were allowed to use normal writing utensils. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At first everything is normal, but then this old TV character, Carousel Carl, pops up at the control panel. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The children watched us as if it were completely normal to set furniture outside. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were buttons for everything—to lower the blinds, to change the lights from normal to blue, to call for a butler! Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was fine, totally normal, and then I had to go and make it weird. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It said that Wesley appeared to be normal, but needed further evaluation for possible anxiety issues. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But now that Roz was camouflaged, she could secretly observe their normal behavior, right up close. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I looked down, and I couldn't believe it—it was swollen twice its normal size. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s normal! He’s normal! He’ll grow up like other people. Better than others.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This music, of course, is very familiar and accessible to them, and it is only normal that they are inspired by and want to mimic their favorite pop star. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The main rule was this: “Present the appearance of a normal American.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kid watching a baseball practice—nothing could be more normal, yet his heart skidded. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had to hold on to her normal way of looking while simultaneously slipping into the trancelike open dreaming in which she could see the Shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The world was returning to normal, but for me there was no normal to return to. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I lean back, content that at least in this regard I am normal. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Field Notes are a compilation of the reports of seasoned observers who have spent many years afield in their particular areas and have unparalleled knowledge of the normal bird life of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By comparison, our normal ration of pap seemed like a feast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My life will never go back to normal. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They will be. We’ll make shift with normal robots, or, if necessary, do without.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes went wide, then back to normal an instant later. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes had rolled shut and his foot was twice its normal size. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Many chemicals used as pesticides — herbicides as well as insecticides — belong to this group of substances that have the ability to damage the chromosomes, interfere with normal cell division, or cause mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

All normal, like his on/off switch has been flipped and, of course, he can talk now. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Enough energy would be released to blow the pluto nium apart—but only with about as much force as a normal bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you if you tell me what happened yesterday. I know something did and that’s why we couldn’t walk to school the normal way this morning.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“But only if it consumes peculiars. It can eat as many normals as it likes and it will never turn into a wight. Therefore, we must have something normals lack.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After the bitterest winter anyone could recall, life was slowly returning to normal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hafa and I will never become normal friends who braid each other’s hair, talk every day, and tell each other our secrets. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Shackleton believed that keeping to some pretense of normal routine would calm the men’s nerves and settle their fears. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She knew from the jerky movements he made, from the panic on his face, from the hasty way he was trying to look normal again, that something that should not have happened had happened. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Another lie, Ted. One of these days you’ll be nearly normal.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only time I feel halfway normal is when we’re at the kitchen table. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Just before the normal Door-closing time, Frypan prepared one last meal to carry them through the night. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

That would be the big one, the one that would make me look more normal. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the only way the job really differed from a normal taxi run was that the chaps she picked up obviously weren’t pilots. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And so it came to pass that the normal, happy event of dividing food after a hunt became a war of insults and rage and starving bellies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because your Ma and I made a decision together. We were going to learn how to speak what they called ‘normal’ English. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He regards their time together as perfectly normal, as destined, and she begins to see how easy it is. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At normal energies, the strong nuclear force is indeed strong, and it binds the quarks tightly together. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A normal spleen weighs less than a pound; Moore’s weighed twenty-two. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Things are more or less back to normal here. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Joining the peculiar children would also mean I wouldn’t finish high school or go to college or do any of the normal growing-up things people do. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“How do we know Melody doesn’t have answers stored in her machine? Us normal people aren’t allowed to use computers.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was minutes before I could breathe like a normal person. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

So I’m going to keep on writing like everything is normal. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Ruthie, you need to jump back into your normal life and go to school.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only normal sucked, and he didn’t think he could live like this—not anymore. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In 1959 several British and French research teams found their independent studies pointing to a common conclusion — that some of humanity’s ills are caused by a disturbance of the normal chromosome number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to get her out the house and do something normal.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At first she tried to get it in the normal way, through marriage, but that didn’t work, as I think you’ve heard. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, Naomi would have protested that Henry was not her father and that she didn’t know the way to the icehouse. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen her before in her uniform, but her normal clothes were always so put together, so Ruth. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dicey walked at half her normal speed, because of Sammy’s short legs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking, any normal person would automatically fie on a woman biding for her husband. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

These are the normal food of baby salmon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was the normal pushing and whispering and not paying attention. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Then by careful measurements of their respiration, it was found that the fermentation rate was markedly above normal, just as Warburg had foreseen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wants to pretend that she’s still alive, that one day she’ll come home from work and everything will be normal again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On a normal day, my mom would be home from the candy store by now. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stow the bedroom and go back to the airlock for a normal egress to Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she tries to come across normal like this, it’s so weird. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of course, gods are usually twenty feet tall when they’re on Olympus, so that makes them look a lot less normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Within a few more days, Dad seemed almost normal, except that he’d become tentative, even kind of shy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like today, it’s just us three like normal, laughing and joking and being silly, until Isabella asks about Halloween costumes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Things were normal until Port Harcourt fell. I was an army contractor, and I had a license to import stockfish. I’m in Orlu now. I’m in charge of a refugee camp there.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One horn is normal; the other is crooked. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it slowed to normal, he felt a pain growing inside, a pain spreading through his body, pressing from within. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

For just that day, I felt normal, and I hoped that my life could be that way soon. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He simply collected five times the normal rent for his three rooms. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t he just be at camp like a normal kid? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You must be back to normal by now, we are —” But Moaning Myrtle glided suddenly through the stall door. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“She seems fine. Breathing okay, normal heartbeat. Though it’s a bit slow. Your guess is as good as mine, but I’d say she’s in a coma. Jeff, let’s take her to the Homestead.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

This is starting to become our new normal. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Yeah, it was back to normal with Seanie, but I still didn’t cross my legs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“So—you’ve found him. Thank the gods for that. Now the city can remember itself and get back to normal. Where was he?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had a normal life that did not include being cloistered in a bubble for fourteen hours a day with her sick teenage daughter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Israel Israel could be an important part of the power structure during times of distress, the voters seemed to be saying, but he was not welcome there when things returned to normal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The normal hum from the fluorescent lights that illuminate the pathways between buildings is absent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I’m having a hard time getting used to people calling my actions normal. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Milo’s eyes opened wide, for there in front of him was a large dog with a perfectly normal head, four feet, and a tail—and the body of a loudly ticking alarm clock. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would've had any normal person doubled over, but Jamaal didn't even flinch nor did he wait for me to follow with another shot. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, January 8,1935 The next morning seems just like normal, with Natalie watching the sun rise and then asking for lemon cake. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was normal to feel nervous, Mr. Benedict had said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my cool, which wasn't much, but on this night, way more than normal, and strutted over to where the girl with the legs was standing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He wished he could truly feel sorry for her friend the politician who had been killed, but politicians were not like normal people, they were politicians. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bailing out water was a normal activity on a boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe next time we go out to eat you can order something like a normal human being.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Of course, normal people. Why would peculiars pay to see things they can do themselves?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“But I’m just trapped here. As soon as I can prove I didn’t know there was a bullet in that gun I’ll be ungrounded, and then we can do anything normal you want.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“A little stage fright is normal. But after that, it’s up to you, child.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But let’s be real—this is no normal post office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Dad got home from his shift at the factory around six, which was normal. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And while I once thought what I wanted from her was this normal, everyday tone, now that I have it, the normalcy disappoints. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ceremonies, discussions and arguments began to be carried on in normal or even louder than normal tones and no one stopped to worry about being overheard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she disappeared, I felt a sinking return to everything normal. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new opportunity to theorize soon brought Francis back to normal form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

His neck connected to the middle chest like normal, but he had two more chests, one to either side, connected at the shoulders, with a few inches in between. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I am sure I did not eat his parents,” said Roz, returning to her normal voice. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I do my best to act normal, and I shadow Fiona as she moves from event to event. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

While I think on those words, Director Horus twirls his staff and the stars scatter, returning the night sky to normal. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Emma waggled her eyebrows warningly at Chess and mouthed at him, Sound normal! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A normal child would have abandoned the task long since. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“And in another three or four years, they’ll need to do further surgery that will make you look a lot more normal,” she said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I studied his flawless features in the limited light, waiting for my breath to return to normal, until it occurred to me that his expression was murderously angry. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

By binding small, flat pieces of wood to newborns’ foreheads, they pushed up the soft infant bones, making the skull longer and higher than normal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was powerful, chest fully twice as deep as a normal man’s, shoulders twice as broad. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey banged around on my drum set for twenty minutes or so and things felt normal again, for a little while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, I didn’t talk hardly at all when I was a little kid, and whenever I seemed normal, they were happy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

"But I'm different. You know that. You heard my secret. You heard it. That ain't normal," I explained, my voice now straining, ripping into its own confetti. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Their newscaster was interviewing a distinguished-looking scientist about how long it would take before things got back to normal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I hear that something or other is selling at a fraction of its normal cost, I comment that the fraction is probably Vz, and am met with a blank stare. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actual reports were carefully sent outside normal channels directly to Nixon, Kissinger, and a small handful of other officials. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Those things were normal back home, but not in Iran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He held her longer than he might on a normal day. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kat was always on at me to put on a T-shirt and jeans and be ‘normal and chilled’ but that made me want to wear my uniform even more. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The normal where I don’t have to choose which Starr to be. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All week, there's been a film crew here, and we're reassigned from our normal jobs to spruce things up, planting flowers, painting buildings, clearing out beds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was weird and so normal at the same time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

ME: That still doesn’t make me anything but a normal teenager. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They seem to view such questions as prying or boastful, but to me they're perfectly normal. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe I need to figure out a way to be talking about these issues more, and create a space where learning and talking about women is normal and doesn’t get shut down right away. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when the terms go to zero, the sum is finite, a nice, normal number like 2 or 53. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I sit on the bleachers near our normal meeting place. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was kinda absurd, and my heartbeat started getting back to normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Whispers, almost indistinguishable from the rain, turn to normal speech, and I hear some voices lift above others, almost yelling, but not quite. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I paid her a visit myself, her and that doomed baby of hers. Once that baby is left in the forest, she will mourn and recover, and things will return to normal.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“The Abnegation leaders told them what we had to tell them. Now, let’s hope Johanna is keeping up her normal habits. She is usually in the greenhouse this early in the evening.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you always this normal, TaShon? I mean, you were so quiet, I never knew. You’re”—I lick my lips—“nice.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The boy with the blue hair was told to come back “with a normal hair color” the next day. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A normal man would have been dead by now. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The normal, I understand, can see words my way only if they are adequately poetic: Poor Dan is in a droop. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To feel like things were normal for a minute. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone keeps saying everything will be back to normal soon, but I want to remember,” he said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Where there used to be the normal proper space ’tween buildings, they soon started bumping shoulders ’gainst each other. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

All I know is that we will never be normal. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

They don’t cost as much as a normal house and certainly not as much as a mansion. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It looked normal, but there was a sweet floral scent that wasn’t there before, the smell of earth after rain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Things will go back to normal next week. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When his vision returned to normal, the boy was able to read what the old man had written in the sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning everyone stood around looking fresh, happy, and normal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The normal kids stopped including her, and she was left with me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sit down and pretend for a minute that she actually cares about me and is going to say something normal Unity Valley mothers say to their normal Unity Valley daughters. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kicking away the sweaty sheets, I drew in deep breaths, waiting for my heartbeat to return to normal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kuhn tried to maintain both these views, despite the tension between them, by distinguishing revolutionary science from normal science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I got some normal sand, but plenty of powder, too. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They awoke later than usual, which was understandable given their missed bedtime, but in all other respects, they behaved as if it were a normal day. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It would have lacked the energy to sustain itself under normal conditions, however, the fission bomb provides it with all the energy it requires to grow and become self-sustaining. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The next elimination was in four days, and though training had resumed as usual, she had started waking up a little earlier than normal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘Because your stomach is soft and perfectly normal,’ he answered. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to learn to recognize the same sound or speech unit through all our normal variations in speech volume, pitch, speed, emphasis, phrase grouping, and individual idiosyncrasies of pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to take one from here down to its normal base this afternoon. It’s not top priority but it’s got one of those “S” chits, secrecy and a report required. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Things inside the tent did not seem quite normal. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Frank asks as he stands at the stove top, like this is a normal way to start the day. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The scorching malice of his expression was enough to make any normal person quail, but Lord Roke merely smiled. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Now.that people know the truth, everything will go back to normal.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It is—I thought hunting would be...normal, somehow. But something has to die.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Maya, open the door and talk to me like a normal person.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I should say: what is on the other side looks like normal life. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Colin's collected list of things that weren't interesting, he could hold a halfway normal conversation. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The girl’s confusion was out of all normal proportion. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

By all the rules of normal magic, meanwhile, she ought not to be able to see Hermione and him at all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This isn’t our normal evening time, but an extra afternoon session Hilly’s called. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In normal circumstances, someone would probably reprimand her for discussing her old faction, but these are not normal circumstances. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was the size of a normal man by this time, and all the other children made his life miserable. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If the morning sounds and smells were touched with the supernatural, the late afternoon had all the features of the normal Arkansas life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hesitated — not in the normal way, the human way. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s it. There’s lots more they can do. It’s normal. Don’t worry.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cas was getting that smile a lot nowadays, but it was better than the manic one that tried to pretend everything was normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Man, I don’t want to wake up one day and realize all of this has become normal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s only normal that she doesn’t have an appetite,” he said finally. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jinny looked around her as she walked back to the sleeping cabin, and it brought tears to her eyes to see how normal everything seemed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When it comes down to it, there’s nothing “normal” about our new environment, and I wonder if life will ever be the same. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All these months apart, and we’ve fallen back into normal like it’s nothing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On a normal day, Mom probably would have scolded Emma for how sassy and disrespectful that sounded. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then Freak climbs up on his desk, which makes him about as big as a normal person standing up, and he starts shouting at the top of his lungs. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t play like normal kids, running and jumping. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I blinked, and the world looked different through my eyes for a moment, thin and see-through; then I blinked a few more times and it was back to normal. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Pavilion of Thought had been a ballroom; its doors were twice the height of normal doors, and more than twice the width. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If I played like a normal person, I’d probably be at Level 90 or so by now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was acting like everything was normal, like this was a regular Sunday with us hanging out together on the porch, playing go fish or spit. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Although Salisbury described accurately the terrorism that had become a normal way of life for me, my family, and my community, the article outraged Birmingham’s city leaders. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I try to remember what I would usually say to him, but our normal banter doesn't come easily to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After breakfast things settled down to a boring normal. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time Mom’s using her normal voice, husky, like a cave’s talking to you. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When he stepped off his bike, the waistline of his slacks was way higher than normal, but somehow he still managed to look manly and stylish and not like a total goober. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered if they’d ever get back to normal, if things would ever be the same between them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You could pass an object from the hot zone through the tank into the normal world. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That accidental discovery was the first of several developments that would allow two researchers from Spain and Sweden to discover that normal human cells have forty-six chromosomes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even if business had been normal the Bureau couldn’t have handled it because the workers began to go. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quendy was at first really nice and normal, talking about how it was good to see that we were doing okay, and how she was okay, and everything was fine. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m fascinated by how normal her life seems. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There was this feeling that everything I was going to say was either too loud or too strange for a world in which people did normal things. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This does not happen in the normal expansion of the universe in which the matter energy density goes down as the universe gets bigger. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if it was normal for fifteen-year-old boys to love their mothers. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It always hurt not to breathe like a normal person, incessantly reminding your lungs to be lungs, forcing yourself to accept as unsolvable the clawing scraping inside-out ache of underoxygenation. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were almost as big as a normal pretty’s, but they angled upward like a wolfs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The last time I’d had something like a normal life had been ... well, never. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now they watch her out in front, beyond everything that’s ever been done on a normal weekend in this town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘Why not? Once we sort things out between Greeks and Romans, the gods should go back to their normal selves. Then we can free her and she can . . . you know . . . grant us victory.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What fantastic levels might be achieved by using this technique on normal people. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you lose track of whether the things inside your head are normal and reasonable or filled with cracks and flaws. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Each link in the chains was too heavy for a normal man to lift. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In her shy, soft-spoken way, she helped me feel confident about my studies, and by the next progress report, my grades had returned to normal. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were a nuisance, Barack and I, a disruption to any normal scene. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But James Parker looked normal, for the most part. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everything looks normal, exactly as this apartment has looked every time I've come to visit. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She would be her normal gracious self and they would drink wine and talk about his book and her new zinnias and Igbo-Ukwu art and the Western Region elections fiasco. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I want to touch her skin and talk to her and pretend that I’m just a normal Tribal boy and she’s just a normal Scholar girl. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hideo lifts his glass to toast the crowd, as if this level of insanity were perfectly normal, and then sits back down to watch. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That’s where the loss lived, in those strangely normal spots on my body. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A normal man would have flinched at the thought of it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In normal circumstances the family recalls stories about the departed to pass the long night hours. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was unsettling to see Otis Amber act like a normal human being. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you were a normal husband, you would help with the children.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If I missed the shot on purpose, I wouldn’t have a million dollars, but my mom would get her job back and we’d be back to normal. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it actually looked okay: no curtains or carpeting, but normal stuff, a normal room with a friend sitting on the bed, which had just one pillow. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ctrl + click gets you the Mac Word dictionary and "Recovery, n., 1. the return to normal health . . . 2. The return to a normal state ... 3. The regaining of something lost or taken away." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad you’re getting yourself back to normal!” she chirruped, as though she knows what my baseline is. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The normal, adult bed—“in which my late husband breathed his last,” said Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham—was moved out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Milo was by nature opposed to any innovation that threatened to disrupt the normal course of affairs. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Artists, she reminded herself, didn’t think like normal people, and at last she turned to Mia with curiosity. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I looked back and a few of them were looking at me, which was okay because I was normal. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost ask her what normal people do but I suppose that would not work for me anyway. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day we have only the normal shelling, so that we are able to repair the trenches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I looked in the mirror I was reminded not only of just how far from normal I was but how little ownership I had of my face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But somehow, I’m not quite “normal” in suburban Massachusetts. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but think about what else might be normal. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

May I suggest that from now on, we simply make a special point of communicating important information during the course of the normal working day. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me there were none of the gradations between public and private society so normal to a maturing child. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Coach's stupid whistle and the constant shouting of "on the line" became just as normal as sunflower seeds from Mr. Charles's store. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I feel guilty about how relieved I am to be a normal size the next morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every time I’m whole and back to normal, something happens to tear me apart, and I’m forced to start all over again. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Since the doorway was of a normal size, he had to crouch and twist in order to squeeze through.“Everything will be fine,” Grandma said, placing a bracing hand on Kendra’s shoulder. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was being crushed by two unrelenting forces: the uneasy suspicion that I might not be a normal female and my newly awakening sexual appetite. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wear a black shirt and blue jeans and try to convince myself that it feels normal, that I feel normal, that I am adapting. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t he have the normal interests of a boy his age? Look at Ravi. All he can think about is cricket, movies and music.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a few water-like ripples, the shadow returned to normal and Darkness was nowhere to be seen. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t crossed their minds that a change of environment wouldn’t immediately make us normal boys; we were dangerous, and brainwashed to kill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each shelter had a nearby privy, a good water source, and a picnic table, so we could prepare and eat our meals in a more or less normal posture instead of squatting on damp logs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had had no association with them; the religious home in which I lived, my mush-and-lard-gravy poverty had cut me off from the normal processes of the lives of black boys my own age. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under “normal” conditions, they argue, state institutions are able to normalize the organization and enforcement of the prevailing racial order, and the system functions relatively automatically. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was already becoming normal at that time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He also devoted a chapter to the psychoses of four chess masters, selected from the millions of normal people who’d played seriously over the years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And so they come to Howard to be normal—and even more, to see how broad the black normal really is. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ron was breathing heavily: His eyes were no longer red at all, but their normal blue; they were also wet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Talking normal, like there wasn’t about to be pain and screaming and a chase. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when I closed my eyes and rolled over and felt my breathing was already back to normal again, I realized something about myself. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even though I felt like I looked normal, apparently I didn't. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As Nick took his book bag and notes and sat down, Mrs. Granger’s eyes went back to almost normal, and she actually smiled at him. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not fine, and no way is it normal. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a normal dinner joint with bland selections you could find anywhere. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I waved goodbye to the other patients—my friends, as strange and as absurdly normal as that was—as we passed the rec room, the place where I’d spent every weekend for months with Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She could pair them with her skinny jeans and Chucks and look almost normal. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Mom says you lie here because it’s what you do to feel normal.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Yellow flowers everywhere. And a spring yellow dress, like a normal wedding dress only yellow. And he would wear a yellow cummerbund.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If normal sex was a great mystery in the neighborhood, criminal sex was an open book. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a new “normal,” because our lives are punctuated by weird air pockets of the surreal. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I just also want to be able to text you like a normal person. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Obinze had never made as much of an effort as he did the rest of the day to seem normal, to tame the rage that was engulfing him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Things were back to normal—if Pa whistling was normal. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Blood pressure zero, pulse rate zero, temperature normal." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t say how I admired him for not crying about his father being in prison and for trying to be a normal kid. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank is watching The Lost Secrets of the War of 1812, but even though the volume is up, I can still hear Aurora helping my mom in the kitchen like they’re a totally normal family. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

About 70 percent of the time, things are pretty normal for me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His normal eye was fixed upon the sausages, but the blue eye was still darting restlessly around in its socket, taking in the Hall and the students. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re a normal kid who did something very bad. And even though it was just a mistake, you’re trying not to forgive yourself.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kin limped into the barn, letting the door fall shut behind him, acting as though a thousand birds rushing past was a normal occurrence. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He said this in his normal voice, so everyone could hear. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

However, that translates into an average expansion of only 8 miles per year, a trivial feat for a hunter-gatherer likely to cover that distance even within a single day’s normal foraging. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the weirdness of acting “normal” when nothing really was normal was exhausting. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I took my normal seat, the kids in my little cluster looked at me like I’d sprouted wings. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“So you do this every summer? Fight monsters? Save the world? Don’t you ever get to do just, you know, normal stuff?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was nice to tell Julie things would be back to normal by Monday, but he thought that was unlikely. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He managed the cumbersome tableware as if it were its normal size and shape. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His data had looked perfectly normal, disguised to be indistinguishable from an average player’s—I hadn’t even seen any shields installed to protect his info. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Now he’s saying he wants to keep things normal,” Simon says. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Seeing a perfectly normal child here in the middle of the Greater Jungle was such an odd contrast that he wasn’t even sure what to say. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I haven't had a conversation with a normal person in ten days; I've barely said anything other than 'Yes, sir” and “No, sir.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After a while, though, things went back to normal, except that Sherm’s grandfather was gone. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

For the hundredth time, I wished we could do all the normal things friends do. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, Sohrab stripped himself completely, like it was totally normal for guys to be naked around each other. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Not a normal book, like you buy in the store, but a book he made himself, you can tell that right away. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Death goes back to normal, and the monsters lose their shortcut to the mortal world.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe he knew it, and maybe that’s why he decided to crash into the glass a little harder than normal that day. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Bullies don’t like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear. ” Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe they would come out, tell her it was all a big joke, tell her Jack would be out in a minute, tell her everything was going to go back to normal. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But things always went back to normal in the end. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They don’t command the resources or attention that hospitals do, and often they’re severely understaffed, leaving such places barely equipped to deal with a normal day, much less a crisis. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Number 2 is a boy, a husky lad with hair too long to be considered normal but too short to be considered long. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I guess it should have been obvious to everyone right then that I wasn’t going to have a normal life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reasons, college just does not feel normal. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m answering your question. The answer is yes. I’m giving up on trying to be popular and normal.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They came out of the package looking like normal, udder-pink wieners, but as they got hot, an amazing transformation took place. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a normal enough question, but when I looked up to answer, I just nodded yes, for all of a sudden, it wasn’t so easy to talk. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word essays has come to seem normal and natural to us—students write essays all the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Having friends from all over the world seemed perfectly normal to Qendrim; it was all he had known since arriving in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Normal If I were normal, I wouldn’t be living with Mama Ya-Ya. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

This boy has been hit so many times in his life that violence is practically a normal state of affairs for him. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips were returning to their normal color. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I have the hardest time trying to maintain a normal facade when I’m feeling so wretched and sad. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I assumed that my father had convinced the big jowly deputy—and probably everyone else at the jail—that he was harmless and fairly normal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The craziness of my life as a top student-athlete became my new normal. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You know most people would think this isn’t normal.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

That didn’t seem like the sort of thing a normal seventh grader would do. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Rashid wished he could believe his father was right and that if he just waited long enough, people would act normal around him again. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In all respects it seemed as if August 3 was a very normal day, with business and buying and pleasure as usual. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I’m going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“El Patron insists that you be educated and live, as nearly as possible, a normal life. The problem is, no private teacher wants to teach a clone. And so the Alacrans got an eejit.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think the feeling will ever go away? Do you think it’s possible that we can be normal people who can be consistently happy?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“A tree is no place for a gosling! Brightbill needs to live on the ground, like a normal goose.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“This . . . here. It’s not appropriate. It’s normal, believe me, but . . .” I told him then that I wanted to be with him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard nothing, but Nero’s back rose and his tail puffed to twice its normal size. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And then when my mom and Jeffrey sat down at the table, it was like some kind of normal family moment or something. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why not pace in front of the house like normal? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But what chance would someone like him have with a normal girl, anyway? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I hope things get back to normal quickly, Senator. We don’t like this. It’s a dirty business.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like they just wanted to erase it all and go back to normal. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But this one was equipped with four shimmering blades—one each where the wheels of a groundcar would be—a cross between a normal hovercar and the rangers’ helicopter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the normal participants looked at the chair, however, they used a completely different and less powerful part of the brain—the inferior temporal gyrus—which is normally reserved for objects. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I simply can’t imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, right,” he said, his voice back to normal. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

You could tell we were all trying to make a fresh start and get things back to normal. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The man had hope, that he had taken the necessary steps, that this apology was welcomed, that his world would eventually return to normal someday. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He does not wish that Vincent dressed better or acted in a more “normal” way. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a long while, however, Cleofes led a fairly normal, if somewhat lonely, life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On normal days, of course, Lord Darlington took his meals, as does Mr Farraday today, in the more intimate atmosphere of the dining room, which is ideal for accommodating up to a dozen. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here, in this microcosm, we must look for those factors that somehow shift the marvelously functioning mechanisms of the cell out of their normal patterns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

So, I started using blankets, but then the blankets hurt, so I started using pillows, but then the pillows hurt, so I went back to normal. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I guess I’m not a normal kid. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances the system would probably have recuperated, as had happened many times previously. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “It isn’t normal to die. It isn’t normal. It’s terrible.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

See, normal hearing aids usually have a part that wraps around the outer ear to hold the inner bud in place. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every story is good, every story is new to me, but they go back and forth like it’s normal to just be chatting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being warmer might be better than pretending I can dress normal in cold weather. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Everyone assumed I was a normal person,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only her old friend in Lagos, Ranyinudo, had made her return seem normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her bustle is even bustlier than normal, and she pretends no time has passed at all. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was normal for volcanoes, Luna knew—they are restless sleepers—and this restlessness was usually not a problem. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The normal temperature of a room was ninety, but as the sun beat down upon the skylights, the temperature rose above a hundred. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like a normal day at camp. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"If it were a normal mission, I would be," Lewis said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flushed it away once, and then again and again until the water in the bowl returned to its normal clarity. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Halsey found a trunk of cool clothes in our room,” Two Step confided, finally back in his normal voice. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed so normal at the time, but, in retrospect, maybe there was a bit of a frown on his face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sniffs, and gulps, and tries to sound normal, but she doesn’t. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I kept telling myself to act normal, to laugh along with everyone else, to say something once in a while. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Who knew if things would ever get back to normal. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Matilda's brother Michael was a perfectly normal boy, but the sister, as I said, was something to make your eyes pop. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere he’d heard that normal usage of water was a gallon a day, and even at that rate he had enough for three weeks—twenty-one days. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three days of sullen looks and stubborn silence, everything was back to normal. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was almost like normal, which is how I like it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To converse in a normal tone of voice meant that an athlete was not thinking seriously about the coming game; it exposed a frivolous nature alien to victory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad says, "So what do you make of that? You can't see it, but it makes a shadow—except it's not a normal shadow, is it?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Carlos, have they told you anything about how long before things get back to normal?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Here she was talking with a ghost as normal as talking to anyone else, except this ghost seemed to be enjoying the conversation as much as Ophie did. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But we kept slowing down, groping our way across the totally unobstructed plain, and it took a strong effort of will to speed up to a normal pace. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, I’d have focused solely on the academics and culture of each place, but we were far past the possibility of normal now. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

More sitting on edge but faking like everything is normal. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I was riding along, as per normal, in the front of Ben’s wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I get chocolate ice cream swirled with Oreos, and for the ten minutes it takes to eat it, I almost feel normal again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The chilling prospect of enduring Francis throughout the remaining years of his tenure as the Cavendish Professor was too much to ask of Bragg or anyone with a normal set of nerves. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The emotions were normal in context; it was their extreme range that was abnormal. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Not on the normal tourist route, it was clean and cozy, with dark-painted walls, a giant silver-sequined elephant and other decorations from Thailand, and dim lighting, which his eyes preferred. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s normal. There’s nothing wrong with him. Just lazy. I’ll beat it into him until he learns.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey had the two worst black eyes I’d ever seen, and his nose was swollen to about twice its normal size. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the bell rang, the class had returned to the normal state of boredom and disinterest. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We linked hands and raced off toward the turnstiles, leaving behind us a wake of tripped and flailing normals. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though life would be back to normal next year, or as normal as it ever was at Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, what’s happening down there? Why does your guitar playing sound so much better than normal? I’m scared. What did you do with my daddy?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux twisted beneath the stranger in ways a normal person could never manage, stretching like he was made of taffy. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

For normal potato farmers, it's not worth doing because they're working with literally millions of potato plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stores sugar in the form of glycogen and releases it as glucose in carefully measured quantities to keep the blood sugar at a normal level. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I knew how genetics worked—even normal identical twins didn’t look as identical as Theo’s brothers. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Treat you normal?” he asked, just to make sure he heard me correctly. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her voice was almost normal, just slightly blurry. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn't see the first shot, 'cause we were cozying up on the stoop there like normal, but I saw the second one. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You wanted Pearl to have a more normal life, she reminded herself; well, this is what teens do. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If you let Dylan go on long enough, like I do, he eventually hits on the thing a normal person would know to say immediately. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that Valencia was some sort of heiress and had paid for the million-dollar house in cash, much the same way a normal person might buy a belt or an electric skillet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

No one had ever been able to replicate Carrel’s work, and the cells seemed to defy a basic rule of biology: that normal cells can only divide a finite number of times before dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed normal to all of us, but the majors expression grew stormy throughout the courses. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"I can just use my normal card," I said. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s loud, but not the normal boisterousness of a middle-school morning. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, she went to a hospital that helped her figure things out enough to try and make things normal, so she moved in with my family. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I always felt better after talking to her, and gradually, my life became normal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To just let me heal, let me leave the hospital, let me go to court, let me do whatever stupid community service they wanted me to do, and let me go back to normal. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of rinses in the restroom transform my mouth from a swamp of puke residue to normal. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t we have a normal number of reservations tonight? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Today I been selling ammo at about two hundred times the normal rate 1 usually sell it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I don’t think that’s a very polite question under normal circumstances, but I heard a guy telling someone else something about “before old Miss Taylor died,” and he gave me a funny look. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when Mundín and Sam are out working on the car and Mami and her friends are playing canasta on the patio, it seems as if things might be going back to normal. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances she left the kids alone, feeling that teens needed their space, that they were entitled to some degree of privacy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Flashing Zu a reassuring smile, I added, “You’ll be ahead of everyone else your age by the time things go back to normal.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And how could such a thing be normal and terrible both at the same time? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Watching a dance battle, like it's the most normal thing in the world. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you wicked man!” she howled, in a voice just a little shriller than normal. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Other than the horse one, you have to nod and agree with them that cancer and heart disease are totally normal and respectable ways to eat it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Looks like rain," I tell her, in an effort to keep things normal. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They don’t want people to know what it was like before the operation. They want to keep you hating yourselves. Otherwise, it’s too easy to get used to ugly faces, normal faces.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It would be months before it was back to normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The surprise was gone and Ana’s face had smoothed back into its normal therapist mode. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After I was born, they stopped being musicians and became normal people. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead of doing the normal things a high school girl did, she had had to remain that thirteen-year-old girl on the witness stand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a different psychological environment, where my normal expectations were inverted, where leadership was honored and class clowns were ostracized. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“In this one, it theorizes that dragons aren’t magical at all but are just normal animals that ancient people thought were magical. And the legends persist to this day.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They weren’t kids I would ever have been friends with in normal circumstances, but for that brief time I made do, because I had nowhere else to go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We hop out of their way, as the real citizens do, wait until the crowd returns to its normal flow, and keep moving. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“How are you, Sonny?” he asked, as if it were a normal thing for me to appear before him in the middle of the night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The normal classroom items were there: desks, chalkboards, a set of encyclopedias. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Giant had definitely slowed down and was now running more normally, although normal was a silly word to use to describe a galloping giant. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to get out of here—come on,” Valley muttered, her face almost completely back to normal already. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Burns looked at them, her face both cloudy and sunny, her skin absent of her normal brown. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And then, out of nowhere, as if it were the most normal thing imaginable, Lydia reached out and took Dill’s hand. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

For example, quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding season survived and even produced normal numbers of fertile eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hogwarts was back to normal with only a few, small differences. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“It was my normal. Didn’t think anything of it when I was in it.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey looked really beat, too, although his black eyes had faded to yellow and his nose had gone back to normal. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time his breathing was normal again, he had worked out that bathing these injuries would have to wait. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I would say she has more than a tangle in her yarn,” she said, her voice one shade oilier than normal. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like, so plain and normal that it was something to be proud of? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

All I knew was that my heart was broken into several hundred pieces, and I was walking along beside Burke Allen and dreaming of cakes as if the world were a normal place. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Under the nazis, normal life became impossible for young people and their families as they lost their basic freedoms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took the last few steps into the main room and was relieved to see that everything else seemed normal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The aim is to confuse the male moth and alter the normal behavior so that, in the welter of attractive scents, he cannot find the true scent trail leading to the female. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could set the temperature of the Hab higher than normal, meaning my body would expend less energy keeping its temperature. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know anymore what normal even looked like. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It had just been a friendship, normal as anything. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Because nothing else about that hospital was normal. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s . . . normal not to be perfect the first time. I should have explained the process better.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always hated the discipline, as every normal animal does, but it was just and true and inevitable as measles, not to be denied or cursed, only to be hated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got to Earth orbit the normal way, through an ordinary ship to Hermes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked in, did his normal circle where he checks everything off on a clipboard and then walked back out to get ready to leave for the night. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Until he was five years old and had finally managed to walk in an almost normal manner, he had been a mass of bruises and hickeys. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When April died, something in May died, too. She never was normal after that. It seemed like the world itself became May’s twin sister.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I get up earlier than normal and walk around town with the Doorman and a street directory, finding each house. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you miss, like, a normal life?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the other people were normal, law-abiding citizens. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“People as far on the fringes as you can get, completely dehumanized by ‘normal’ society. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, just treat her like you would a normal sister. This isn’t baby-sitting.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma thinks coming to Uncle Carlos’s house is normal, but Chris is the kind of normal I really want. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” he said in a normal voice. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you all really so desperate that you’d stake everything on him? Why, he’s just a boy—a soft- bellied normal who knows next to nothing of our world!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Are you saying I'm not normal?" she asks, her voice tight. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he still looked exhausted, even paler than normal. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face goes from normal to zombie and back and forth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Strange, but it felt normal to be disemboweling fish together. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It made things feel a bit more normal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The family jokingly said that she was the only normal person for many generations, and it was true she was a miracle of equilibrium and serenity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I wish I could grow arms and pretend to be normal.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I try hard to act normal at dinner, and for once I’m glad Dad’s busy outside. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“So, Nat,” I say, like I would to a normal sister, “what would you think about two people who talk all the time in French class?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least what was normal before Mom disappeared from the family. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

On a normal man, it would be no more than a half cape. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet bom. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

How can his outside look so normal and his inside be so broken? Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was silent, not the normal type of quietness that I expected from him, but a dark, smoky, angry silence that I had never seen before. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, they love me and all that, but it doesn’t stop them from slicing my life in half every seven days and then acting like that’s normal or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They still hurt, but it was the pain of getting back to normal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We drank and watched the trains go by and talked about nothing: television and work and where he went to school, just like normal people. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were other normal kids at home to think about, after all—my brothers and sisters. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the normal course of things, the applicant would never notice her, but she makes sure they do. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She pretended to ignore the man but made a mental note to be more careful than normal when he was around. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if everything was back to normal after the strangeness of the night before. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Finding my new normal, and that my new normal is Sandy. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was a possum, returning to his lair at his normal time. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the normal chemistry of the human body there is just such a disparity between cause and effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“See you soon,” said Mom, her voice sounding a little higher than normal. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If not normal, at least kind of special. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they went about their day like everything was normal, all I wanted to do was cry and scream and throw something. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I still don’t know if I’ll ever get used to not spending Wednesdays at Zoey’s, but I already know things will feel normal again, just differently normal. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

When he visited her, she tried not to feel disappointment at how normal he looked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting on top of this normal brick building, there was the most amazing glass...thing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

That false softness had left his voice and he sounded normal again, bracing and sonorous. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a second there’s something so normal about this, until I realize the pages are turning too fast and she’s holding the magazine too close to her face. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother seemed back to normal—screaming and angry, throwing things around the parlor while Pluto tried to reason with her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“This one is cancer, right? And the rest are her normal ones?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Look, just forget it for now. Lets pretend we’re a couple of normal people. We re out for a drive, and were watching the ocean, and it’s nice to be together.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If only she could get better, everything could go back to normal. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This is so totally different from my normal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, he acquiesced; the test showed that he suffered from elevated levels of serum creatinine with a value way above 1.4, the highest parameter in the normal range. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realize I'm not hearing the normal wail of a police siren. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The normal bell-shaped curve seems to describe many phenomena in nature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, his breathing returned to normal and he was able to look at her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet seemed too big for his body, with cracked dirty toenails, eight toes on each foot But the top half of his body was the weird part He made Janus look downright normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of leaving us alone like any normal dad, he’s always asking us dumb questions about music, school, and boys. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The rest of it was projected at about ten times the normal speed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I try to sound normal—as normal as a naked guy can sound—and I say, "Hi, I'm ... I'm sorry to barge in, but I saw you, and... and I wanted to say hi." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all stand in place, still focused on Gabriel, who remains normal, still strumming, still singing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Why not enjoy the next few days and the last few dollars? Next Thursday, your life will return to normal. You areCinderella at the ball. Stop thinking about what happens after midnight?’ Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Savant means that my math skills are far beyond normal, and acquired means I wasn’t born with this wacky ability. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe no one woulda been shot and everything would be normal. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not even in a box like normal comics. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The normal where nobody tells you how sorry they are or talks about “Khalil the drug dealer.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The birds were slashing at any bit of exposed flesh, driving everyone into a panic Now that the birds were closer, it was clear they weren’t normal pigeons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thus he would punish the greedy, the petty, the prejudiced, the normal, the unkind. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And to top it all off, he was trying hard to be sympathetic to me, his pretty normal, now really sad homeboy. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If he closed his eyes, he could still see his mother standing there, washing dishes...when she had been well enough to do something that normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They decided I needed some sort of support, something that would give me a closer to normal stance and provide stability. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s normal. Since the accident anyway,” I added. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ms. Wardak sighed, like she didn’t have the energy to argue that normal humans liked their presents pebble-free, and in boxes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He feels that my rapid intellectual development has deceived me into thinking I could live a normal emotional life. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

If she closed her eyes, she could have been speaking with a normal boy her age. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I said, desperate to break the silence and get things back to normal. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he was acting more peculiar than he normal do!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I apologize, God, for thinking you had taken away all my normal life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that he was looking for her and the book would make it harder for her to act normal if he happened to be there again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The common room was deserted, and, judging by the fact that it smelled quite normal, Hermione had not needed to set off any Dungbombs to ensure that he and Sirius got privacy. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even now, look at her—just crouching there, not a peep, no screaming, no crying, no running away like any normal girl. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes and knew then that it had been no normal dream. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Looks good to me, Dill. You got done early, but I’ll clock you out normal. Great work.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He wondered if this were a normal way to feel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So we look like normal people, not ones escaped from a river crossing. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or at least communicate that this wasn’t her job and that he wasn’t such a useless idiot he couldn’t chop some potatoes like a normal person. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some students thought you should be looking for a person twenty to thirty years older than yourself—the sort of age a normal parent would be. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Fina is trying as hard as she can to act like everything is normal, but somehow it feels like things are different between us now. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Do normal kids discuss their father’s wedding plans with their mother? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, he was as not normal as it is possible to be. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

That to immerse myself in their groupings is to emerge the most normal, as well. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even more reporters with more cameras and equipment packed into the room as we tried to give the impression of having a normal meal. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely opium could be grown by normal people. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like something that normal people do—go on dates, talk about small things, laugh. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the base of the building a crowd had gathered . . . but it wasn’t a normal crowd of tourists and pedestrians. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We probably won’t win unless we can get back to normal. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And then, being in a heady, sharing sort of mood, I explain the wheelchair, the potting soil, and Rosa, like it’s all perfectly normal. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Hi. Excuse me,” Ben says, his voice an octave higher than normal. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His foot and toes were swollen to twice their normal size. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their other children, who were born in the U.S., were normal and could translate. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hormone cortisol, recently synthesized in the lab, had been found to arrest the virilization these girls normally underwent, allowing them to develop as normal females. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Is this a normal thing for girls to do? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As I head into the final prayer, even my voice has settled down to normal. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ben said, “Maybe dying could be normal and terrible.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My younger sister was in the class below me; we were normal ages and normally separated. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people her children had fallen among didn’t have normal names: Fist, Knife, Granny. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to act normal when you see him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t think all this yelling is normal for us,” Doreen said, laughing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Or as normal as you can call it with a new baby.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was interesting to see the teachers come and go, talking about what they would have for lunch or what they had done the night before just as if they were normal people. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Buggy. But there, you look more normal now.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here the theorem provides the theoretical support for the fact that the measurements of any quantity tend to follow a normal bell-shaped “error curve” centered on the true value of the quantity being measured. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was weird.The longer I pretended everything was normal at school, the more I believed everything was normal. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time had also returned to normal by then, because it had slowed down during the shooting. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His elongated body snapped back to normal human shape. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He isn’t normal,” Emma said, grimacing as if this were the direst insult. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I never asked to be treated normal, Charlie. I just want to be left alone.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a weird- looking key, obviously to something extremely important, because it was fatter and shorter than a normal key. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing had steadied still more and his heart rate was close to normal. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now, no human being wants to be in a cemetery at night—no normal one, anyway—but I had to find Gideon's compass. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

This phenomenon was exciting for researchers trying to understand the mechanisms of cancer, because it suggested that they might be able to study the moment a normal cell becomes malignant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not what people really do out there, in normal life, if that’s what you were thinking.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great deal of time is required, even after a single spraying, for most of these insects to build up sufficient numbers to support a normal salmon population — time measured in years rather than months. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

To illustrate this point, picture living in a small town filled with normal people, just like you. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Feeling the pain of the pinch, I open my eyes and all is normal again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here in my hands I hold a perfectly normal water bottle. One that I drank out of this morning to take my vitamins.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"Jesus F. Christ, Park," his dad said in his normal voice, "are you serious?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When he woke each morning, he would feel normal for a few minutes and then sink into terror upon remembering where he was. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But she was so close to having everything back to normal that strength rushed through her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leon called out, his voice strangled but struggling to be normal. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t normal to see Gum Baby like this. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But because there were so many and the drought had cut down on their normal diet of seeds and berries, the males squabbled furiously over possession of each hackberry tree. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Essentially,” the D.H.C. concluded, “bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development. We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like a bird on a basketball, definitely not normal. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I just want the grown-ups in my life to act normal again—whatever that is. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And it’s normal for your thoughts to center on this subject. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought everything might go back to normal. There’s scientific evidence that if we stop using parts of our brains, those sections will eventually cease to function, you know.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Normally, this is where I would respond with my name, but life is not normal right now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The trading ship with its sixty-two normal NS-2’s was gone to wherever it was bound, with an officially imposed story to explain its two weeks’ delay. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

By the following Saturday things were nearly normal again. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to be a normal kid again and go to a dance and be with other kids too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He still does not wake up, but his respiration is down to eighteen per minute, almost normal, and his color has come up from blue to white. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is true that imprisonment has become “normal” in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They seemed normal except for faint reddish streaks running through them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We eat lunch at our normal hilltop spot, on a bench with my favorite view of steep streets that dip like roller coasters. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Actually, what I wish is that I were there with her, touring colleges and having a normal senior-year experience. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But this feels different and worse than our normal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

His chest exam, heart exam, and ECG are normal, and his systolic blood pressure is 165, meaning it doesn’t qualify as an urgent factor. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Was Layla just...working through it all, and now they were back to normal? Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The water...not normal. Hardly made it back.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We won’t hurt you,” Percy called up in a normal voice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In other words, for a few golden days, you remember what it feels like to be normal, before you plunge headlong into the bottomless pit. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The central limit theorem states that under a wide variety of circumstances this will always be the case—averages and sums of nonnormally distributed quantities will nevertheless themselves have a normal distribution. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched his pupils shrink in his hazel eyes before blowing back out to their normal size. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Kelton is a few feet ahead of us, but I can see the way his feet move, that it’s not a normal gait. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I am amazed at how normal this whole exchange was. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s obvious that Jimmy was kind of weird, because no normal person would have given forty- minute-a-day jobs to three sixth graders. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When the drought was just a normal drought, before the intense water restrictions, the fountain attracted mountain lions. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My trees grow at an advanced rate for anywhere from two to five years before tapering off to normal, and they are a wild success. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Here’s what I think: we’ve all spent so much time trying to make August think he’s normal that he actually thinks he is normal. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Standing there in my boxers didn’t do anything special to make it feel closer to normal either. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa’s not here anymore. Mango’s not here anymore. How is this normal?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

So, naturally, they weren’t going to give their kids any old normal names. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Better. Much, much better. But the question is, am I really better, or am I just lulled into a false sense of security by this fake environment? I mean, it’s not normal here.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She said the only time he actually talked like a normal human being was sometimes when he was big tired and they were eating dinner before he went to bed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had a life in Washington now, operating with some of the gravitas that came with being a senator, but I was still me, living my same normal life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I parted with them reluctantly, but I knew that this, too, was now normal. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

This extraordinary circumstance—unheard of in the rest of the world—is treated here in America as a basic fact of life, as normal as separate water fountains were just a half century ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was trying hard not to face the notion growing inside me that I was no longer normal, no longer like my other friends. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the daytime hours, Father reported, he was cheerful and seemed of normal intelligence. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie and I were sitting in our normal spots in the Master Oak. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought that after talking to me he would decide that I was normal and leave me alone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And the way he said it—as if this whole situation were completely normal—made me laugh a little. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After that fateful contact with endrin, this normal, healthy child became little more than a vegetable — unable to see or hear, subject to frequent muscular spasms, apparently completely cut off from contact with his surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The pawns are placed in their normal positions at the beginning of the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And she wears tracksuit trousers because she says that they are more comfortable than normal trousers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. It’s just that normal people usually take the bus when they want to go somewhere far.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

How many games of Go Fish can a normal thirteen-year-old boy play with his grandma without suffering permanent brain damage? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” said Harry, still breathing rather faster than usual, while his heart rate returned to normal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She smiled at us, one of those odd grins that let you know she was not an altogether normal person. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nigh impossible to understand Howard’s speech under normal circumstances. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He moves with his normal loping gait, leaning back with my shirt on. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So when can we go back to normal?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The good news is that, as with a boa constrictor or a Planet Hollywood T-shirt, normal people tend to keep their distance when you're wearing a Walkman. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I am sitting in one the chairs, going over their conversation, which was very nice and normal and nondisturbing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I've never lived anywhere else, whole months of days where it's 100 degrees outside seems normal. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The suit quickly got things back to normal. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twice the height of a normal human and muscled like a sprinter, and from the shoulders up he bore a thick-maned lion's head. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even want to, but how was I supposed to act normal with that thing in my room? The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually she was brought back to her normal state of mind by a cramp in her right ankle, which was resting awkwardly in the crook of the fork. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Such a discrepancy might have disappointed a normal bride, but Sourmelina didn’t care one way or another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the time Dad gets home with the pizza, the two of them are screeching like preteens, and all is back to normal. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The regular breathing from Mercy’s curtained bed sounded almost normal. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But the intensity of his feelings wasn’t normal. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But none of them seemed to notice him, which made focusing easier than normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was no way Anya could go home and do her normal chores when clearly something was happening in the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

By that time I’m so sick and tired of their remarks that I race to the bathroom and restore my hair to its normal mass of curls. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m being your friend right now, okay? Something is not normal with you.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t text someone at seven forty-five in the morning, especially not on the first day of summer—but nothing about Kaori was normal. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It looked like a normal cow except it was a weird color—bright red, like a cherry. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I loved being with Mom, away from my normal life filled with school and homework and, later, filled with Mikayla being all weird. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But normal human cells —either in culture or in the human body—can’t grow indefinitely like cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He noticed that she was leading an apparently normal life but that she barely ate, sustaining herself with milk and a few spoonfuls of honey. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although demographic shifts were a normal part of life in America at the time, the population swell experienced by the North End made it one of the busiest and liveliest places in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Well he hasn’t got religious mania, and he isn’t running around in a circle spouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he’s normal.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Because in Poland now is terrible; very little bit money. Here, I don’t have a lot of, but I live normal. I have enough, not for rich life but for normal life.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No one is going anywhere. We’re going to stay at home and go to work, and Maya will go to school like everything is normal.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I ask Carla to do an extra check of my vitals, and the results are all normal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped off the blood, but it was still swollen twice its normal size. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be alone with Soojin, to see if it can be normal—like it always is when it’s just the two of us. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Because Matt wasn’t even a normal, forest- living beast. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman hangs on to everything a normal person would throw out: Happy Meal toys, lost playing cards, grocery-store receipts, keys, dolls, a saltshaker, trains . . . how does he know this stuff could be art? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I do the normal post-breakup things—eating ice cream out of the carton, listening to better-off-without-him music, choosing a new profile photo for my Facebook page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were normal children on every side of us, chattering to one another, shouting, shoving—and one, who stood right next to Olive, was crying bitterly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps we should discuss this somewhere more private, shall we? The rest of you, back to your normal activities!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He would dig up the poppy fields and put in normal crops. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You love her. It’s only normal to have wishful thinking,” Dr. Hugely told her gently. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Only that they were angry and normal and unremarkable. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And then, about a month ago, she suddenly went back to normal. Her face flattened out again. Back to being skinny and straight as a rail. I wondered.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The farther we got from the Thicket, the more normal everything seemed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The fistfight was over, everything had returned to normal, and I needed to leave. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the world, the store is a slight aberration of normal. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is normal and should not be seen as cause for alarm. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Way down at the end of the street the man looked normal, but as the sled got closer, the man got bigger and bigger. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a normal afternoon and two normal people.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"We destroy him, once and for all. With his presence gone, life will return to normal." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nature was more or less back to normal. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was a certain nervousness that kept my heart beating slightly faster than normal. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They grew twenty times faster than Henrietta’s normal cells, which died only a few days after Mary put them in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were hoping to hear thwip sounds and that the robot limbs would snap right into place and Roz would return to her old self and life on the island would go back to normal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A voice-over kicks in atop footage of the girl doing perfectly normal human things, like, walking and eating. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I wish I knew. Chiron and the satyrs, they know, but they won’t tell me. Something is wrong in Olympus, something pretty major. Last time I was there, everything seemed so normal.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They’d certainly have enough food to last until things got back to normal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

That storm weathered, life went back to normal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I knew he didn’t look exactly normal, but I really didn’t understand why strangers seemed so shocked when they saw him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The ghoul in the attic howled and dropped pipes whenever he felt things were getting too quiet, and small explosions from Fred and George’s bedroom were considered perfectly normal. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Inside, her front room looks more spacious than normal, and it takes me a moment to figure out why. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And I beg—oh, how I beg—that I never become so desensitized to the death I must deliver that it feels normal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My marks had plummeted, while the rest of the school tried to stagger on like everything was normal. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Others had had laryngectomies, or else defective hearing, or learning disabilities, or for an unknown reason had begun speaking much later than was normal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there in her dull, metal-gray eyes, a cold, terrible surety unlike anything a normal pretty could ever convey. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And if they test it—then suppose we let The Brain have just a little more fun before it’s brought back to normal.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The darkness was somehow denser than normal darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He staggered backward as Frank landed in front of Hazel and returned to his normal form. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And by freezing cells at various points, they believed they could see the actual moment when a normal cell growing in culture became malignant, a phenomenon they called spontaneous transformation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had been hanging out with him all morning long because we had so many classes together, and I guess I was just kind of wanting a little normal time to chill with other kids. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe because students are getting away with an insane amount of PDA that would never be tolerated during normal school hours. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It worked, or at least the ’rents managed to hide their reactions from Jeffrey when they came downstairs.We all sat at the breakfast table, pretending to be normal and cheerful. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dew turned up on grass tips again, compliments of the night; dogs dared to bark; flocks of hummingbirds returned to Onofre Martinez’s gingerbread kingdom; life returned to normal. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don't want to stand out—not at all. I want to be normal. I want to feel like I belong in the same world as everyone else.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wondered how safe and normal a life he must’ve lived in order to say something like that, so casually, and really, truly, believe it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The desire to gain possessions is truly a very natural and normal thing, and when those men gain possessions who are able to do so, they will always be praised and not criticized. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, trying to cut the tension, began digging in her church bag, which was way bigger than her normal bag. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’d never get to do the things normal people do because normal people don’t get so melodramatic about visiting mental hospitals, you idiot! Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Today is the first day that things feel normal again. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You say, ‘No. Go call a taxi like a normal person because I don’t know you.’ Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When we get on the bus, Silas takes his normal seat. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But I could tell from our text messages that she wasn’t a normal teenager. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But we here have to go on learning. The government has ordered all other schools to stay open. I’m sure things will settle down and will return to normal soon.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you heard about the time a normal actually did enter a loop?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He glanced upward again, half expecting it to have changed back to normal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At this point, cancer cells may be said to have been created from normal body cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Soojin’s a pretty name too,” I say in as normal a voice as I can. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But dawns here came on as suddenly as sunsets, and it wasn’t too long before the trail was bright enough for me to walk at normal speed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tally tweaked the eye-shape parameters, pulling the arch of the eyebrows down almost to normal. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then I added, ‘Sis,’ because she likes me calling her this as she says it makes me sound normal. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time it felt normal, too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Battle of Chancellorsville was a fight that, by any normal measure, ought to have been won by the Union army in a rout. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There it is again—that feeling that I'm a little more normal if Max says so. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As he hit the ground, his avatar’s body transformed and shrank back to its normal size and appearance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to talk,” I said, my voice steady and normal, as it is when talking to the familiar, the weak, and the small. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at a normal volume he said, “Give it back, Ambrose.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maddie’s going to see how much fun we have together, she’s going to remember all the good times, and things might just go back to normal. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, I’ve been known to take a perfectly normal rainy day as a personal insult. So this is absolute manna to me.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It’s funny—they seem totally normal with each other. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s normal to look at cartoons and feel so happy, but I can’t help it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Come on, get up. You need to start acting normal or things’ll just get worse.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was glad she had a chance to act normal, but even Rob’s good humor couldn’t break him out of his deep feeling of trouble to come. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or as normal as anything had been this summer. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Harry saw his lips form the words “send us your answer . . . in the normal way.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sorrow mixed with a strange glad feeling that, for a minute, things are back to almost normal. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pet was very clearly here, but those who didn’t see or believe in it, all those families who were still living their normal, monsterless lives, they were the majority. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But while that man’s clothes had been normal, the man at the desk seemed to be dressed in some kind of old-fashioned brown suit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Because of the prince’s status, we were allowed to meet one another in the consulting room, not the normal visiting area where one is separated from one’s family by thick walls and glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I love you since you’ve been standing here talking to me like a normal person for more than a minute. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I lifted up the bags from the market—my normal food supply, I said jokingly—and she seemed to smile and fret at the same time. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Carter contingent said it would only consider playing there if the Permian band, Pepettes, and student section were moved from their normal location on the visitor’s side to the home side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he admired the belt, strutting in front of the broken mirror, the sparrow spoke in a normal voice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

This is what people my age do—going to parties is completely normal. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That is the normal course of things, I figure. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh. My medical team says that keeping things as normal as possible—while avoiding stress is the best treatment.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Bring your best disguise,” she said, like it was the most normal thing in the world to say. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As if it were normal for a dead Mexican woman and a black boy to sit laughing and talking in a white man’s kitchen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, producing a half-rueful grin, he realized that most of all he wanted everything to be normal. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Because of the way ESP is defined—communication without any normal sensory mechanisms—there is no way to tell the difference between a single incidence of ESP and a chance guess. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, I am now considered the more normal one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the labyrinthine Ministry the windowless, air-conditioned rooms kept their normal temperature, but outside the pavements scorched one’s feet and the stench of the Tubes at the rush hours was a horror. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his red shirt unbuttoned, which seemed normal given the warm Indian-summer day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I might feel sorry for her under normal circumstances, but I have no clear idea what normal circumstances are anymore, and anyway, I don’t want her to have my sympathy. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“We have to return at the regular Saturday-afternoon time. We have to act normal, natural, unconcerned.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You and me. Normal. Fun. Just, normal. And I feel like if we knew—” “Okay, fine,” I cut him off. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knew from talking to other astronauts and from my own Gemini flight that this feeling was normal and would pass within an hour or so. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scared. That’s good. A fine soldier is always scared. Makes you normal. It’s how you respond to it that makes or breaks you.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Not that any normal rules of dating applied here. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He is listening now, and he looks almost normal again, his eyes thoughtful and dark in the firelight. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the jeans, but they felt just like normal denim. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Toño,” I say, “make your finger choose me some normal words. With yours nobody will understand me.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as word of the hack broke, the markets bounced back to normal levels. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Though the fuss about Bunny had mostly blown over, the college had still not returned quite to normal—and not at all in the new “Dragnet” spirit of drug enforcement which had spread across campus. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thanks, Oskar Schell I thought he wasn’t going to respond, because he was such an amazing person and I was so normal. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible not to notice that she was wearing those wild fishnet stockings and tippy high-heeled shoes that made her about five inches taller than normal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I was a jerk. I’m taking for granted how normal this all feels.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He pats Charlie’s head and says, “You’re a lot nicer than some of the normal kids whose mothers bring them here hoping I can make geniuses out of them by raising their I.Q.’s.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a surprisingly normal home for a crazy person, yet something was missing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Probably no area in the developed world has undergone a more profound change in just a century or so, at least not in a contrary direction to the normal course of progress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s funny because—” Her big hazel eyes get even wider than normal. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Words connected only to themselves pierced an otherwise normal comment. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seventy-five people applied, and from those Zimbardo and his colleagues picked the 21 who appeared the most normal and healthy on psychological tests. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though nothing would come between our BFF status, it couldn’t hurt to wish everything back to normal. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’m trying so hard to act normal that I don’t notice Windy until she’s a few feet away. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then we went to a refugee camp in Italy where I became a great thief, until we got asylum in Oklahoma, where we try to act normal—raised-eyebrow face like you don’t believe it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When she decided to walk like a normal human again, I told her she was goofy. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Alex squirmed as the hug seemed to go on longer than normal. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

All had normal medical histories before the chemicals they were using boomeranged and struck them down. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Hey, do you go to the high school?” she asked, like we were having a normal conversation. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe that we have discussed anything concerning salary and so forth. Isn’t that the normal procedure at this time?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

About halfway home I got ashamed of myself for crying and stopped; and by the time I reached the tavern I’d got my eyes back to normal and nobody noticed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that Francis, in normal circumstances, wasn’t perfectly able to take care of himself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By the height of the day, temperatures would soar to ninety-six degrees—fourteen degrees above normal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Some old friends are already there, and everything will soon be back to normal. Everything will be perfectly normal.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But not knowing where she’s been these past couple of days has also felt differently normal. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, man, you want me to bring you something out? It's hot," I said, trying to act normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The next day on the bus, Windy acts like normal Windy. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was no blood, and the limb appeared structurally normal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could be happy and normal and popular, as popular as Anise Fowler. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Plus, I really just wanted to feel normal for a second—like nothing had changed. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Lefty Lewis was back to acting normal, but I kept wondering what was in the box he didn’t want the cop to see. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Invisible ink after treatment becomes visible between the lines of a normal letter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s such a normal sound, so completely out of step with the high drama of the last two days. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Another year of missing all the normal teenagery things—learner’s permit, first kiss, prom, first heartbreak, first fender bender. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Is that normal? For peasants? To use dogs as babysitters?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No normal person turns down pizza and doughnuts!” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to lead as normal a life as possible,” she argued as we described to Grandma what had happened to us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops constantly drive by, but that’s the new normal in the Garden. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I work out, too, in my normal life and take a certain macho pride in the Vs of sweat that form on my T-shirt after ten minutes or more on the StairMaster. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still believed everything would return to normal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her features eradicated, her limbs three times their normal size. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

What does a normal angry person look like? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A normal Thief would—but instead, Hammie tightens her grip and continues fighting me in midair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It turns back on, its eyes blinking, its data gathering set back to normal. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Others argued back that they’d use for models people at the peak of their health, and that’s why they were likely to be “normal parent” age. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this is normal, but I don’t ask. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But most guys just got all tense around Joey in normal social situations, like any time when we weren’t out on the pitch and bashing each others’ brains in playing rugby. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During the seventies, it had been normal for Permian to have seven seniors qualify as National Merit semifinalists. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my dad and your dad should get together and become normal. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pressing need of unsatisfied love had passed, they regained their composure and were able to return to normal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unlike Agent Samson to speak so casually, and awkward to sit in the hot little room, pretending to have a normal conversation. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

During the first day of our strike, we were served our normal rations and refused to take them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had sat with him on the curb while he got his breath back, Mark’s hand resting carefully on his shoulder as his heart slowly returned to a normal pace. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Back in our room, I wouldn’t allow myself to feel bad for trying out the “normal” college student experience for one night. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Her normal ration of food in the prison was bread and water, which is why she was losing weight so rapidly. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve missed the way he always made me feel, like I was interesting and normal and funny. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Casually, nonchalantly, like it was a totally normal thing to say, Misha said, “The head rabbi of Kiev.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But they had never met Jim, and even after the normal toasts were made, vodka glasses raised high, Jim felt they didn’t trust him, not without Farmer around. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Only after Norma proved to her that she was capable of having normal children, and that I was a freak, did she stop trying to make me over. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“War is not a normal thing for any country, for any state, for any man, and especially for a woman.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But mostly he tried to move on from HeLa, focusing instead on growing normal and cancerous cells from the same patient, so he could compare them to each other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a normal thing to see, but to me I thought I might be dreaming. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Needles did sweet things that were normal, just not always normal around here. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They thought their technique was the problem, when in fact it was simply that the lifespan of normal cells was preprogrammed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I thought it would bum me out and feel weird not going to Zoey’s again, but what’s really weird is how normal it feels. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Nodding, the witness answered, “I told them under normal conditions I would probably be averse to it. But with the magnitude of this crime I could probably vote in favor.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to our normal table and pull out my phone. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“This is not your normal obituary,” she started, and I could hear the strength return to her voice. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he hits the road, he keeps his head down, his camo trucker hat pulled way farther down than normal. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Okay, so I knew it wasn’t normal, but it was how I saw them. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a normal thing to do, not at all like the ghosts Ophie usually saw, who just floated everywhere. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what to expect, but things seemed reasonably normal there, busier than at Vincent de Paul. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“If you were a normal wife, it might be worth it for me to be working all the time.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When her eyes opened wide, everything went back to normal. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a perfectly normal thing to do to a dog, but seemed a strange thing to do to a talking one. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Everybody was going about their normal business, but they looked tense. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Home,” “school,” and “work” were there, but there was also “traveling,” “lost,” “hospital,” “prison,” and, in the position where the number twelve would be on a normal clock, “mortal peril.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She poked the fire with a stick, and it seemed to glow more richly red than a normal fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their normal life was like this: both worked, Mrs. Dewey as an office secretary, and they divided between them the household chores, taking turns at the stove and the sink. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think we should keep things normal,” she said, before she hurried out to her car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Holding kids deemed menaces to society in a place that would be completely normal if not for the twelve-foot barbed-wire-topped fences seems like someone’s bad idea of a joke. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“How dare you play with my brain! How dare you pretend with me that I’m normal! How dare you program me!” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Where normal people would want to cut it off, Charlie would want it to dip in his soup and let the liquid drip down his elbow. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Presently the rising and falling of their breasts slowed to normal speed, and in a sort of pleasant helplessness they fell apart. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I take deep breaths, and my vision begins to clear, my heart rate returning to normal. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have always felt that people in other countries just don’t have any idea that Africa could be this normal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have winced at the word “normal,” because he went quiet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To a visitor he would have appeared completely normal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

What would I see in the mirror if I were a normal girl? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was an enormous amount of worry involving the Alaska pipeline and caribou and whether or not the pipe would act as an iron barrier and stop the normal migration patterns of the caribou. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We monitor every patient closely after a major surgery. It’s normal,” Dr. Wilkins promised. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Lending a coat to a friend who needed to save face with his mother and father could be normal, Shin thought. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The amount of iridium in the Alvarez sample was more than three hundred times normal levels–far beyond anything they might have predicted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t a normal burglary that night, was it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The hardest part of the routine came each day when he left the house: Act normal. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Knowing that he was looking for her and the book would make it harder for her to act normal if he happened to be there again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, nothing would make me happier. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing could go back to normal after today. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s about right. I didn’t expect you to be so, well, normal.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If you’re a normal kid, reading this because you think it’s fiction, great. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The reprimand lifted my spirits some, made me feel more normal. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Twins in this world got more to worry about than normal people.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Two weeks earlier, Leslie had told me that I was to be “repatriated” and reinstated into normal society. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s about Beecher not being an inclusion school. That’s a type of school that mixes normal kids with kids with special needs.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t a trip of escape, in that normal sense. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still has to bring my meals to me on a tray, but now I can eat normal portions. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She might be getting nicer because of Rocket ReStore, but I bet she’ll be back to her normal self after our last session, which is later today. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Doña Ana’s barn still stood, and the animals inside whimpered softly, as if their normal voices would make the wind start up again. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Not sure yet. Bobby, have you noticed this blanket being hotter than normal?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I wondered: What would a normal family be doing less than twenty-four hours after discovering their parents had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Because instead of grieving like a normal person, I ran away to New York even though the dorms wouldn't be open for another two weeks. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Harpoon starts feeling heavy, so I rest it on my shoulder and try to breathe normal. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But at the lower particle energies that occur in most normal situations, this symmetry between the particles would be broken. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s better than my name, the most normal name of all time. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her office is perfectly normal, not too neat, not too messy. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t I have a normal family like other girls? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted life to be normal again— football, even his homework, without that daily burden weighing him down. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of cool that comes from teaching yourself guitar and wearing normal clothes and not running a Tumblr called “Passion Pit OBSESSION.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I hoped everyone else would find the same kind of satisfaction in yelling at me and then everything could eventually go back to normal. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can fake being normal, as long as Emery doesn’t leave me alone. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I nodded as if that was the most normal thing in the world, burying food in your backyard. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had been so sickly, and it was really only in his last years of life that his health was fairly normal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want to make normal food,” she says, finally arriving at our table after spending half of lunch talking to Stephanie. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to start seeing a marriage counselor and probably try some family therapy, too. It’s going to be a little weird for a while, but things will feel normal again pretty soon.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and I never smiled at each other—not really—but we were still in our magic forty-seven-minute window where the normal rules didn’t apply. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Gotcha,” he said, as if monsters were a perfectly normal thing for a police sketch artist to be drawing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was not damp, like a normal fog or mist. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Emma joined in and then rubbed Finn’s head, because it felt good to do something normal again. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you don’t want to do that, your other option is to make it a normal restaurant and only serve whites.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I have my laptop computer, the essential link to my normal profession, and it has become a matter of increasing concern. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next few hours after the tennis game, everything was calm and back to normal in Lambert, South Carolina. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s like everything normal is crumbling around me, one by one. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Any normal kid would have used his or her knee to pull the leg up and out of the mud, but I had no left knee. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She knew it was normal, the way the baby was breathing too fast, as if panting in her sleep, and yet even that worried her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It would be harder to watch over him if they weren’t normal, but she would find a way. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They waved as if spying on people on the street were a completely normal part of their morning. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Esther wasn’t supposed to work, but she came to the center wearing a jeans skirt instead of her normal white uniform. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I long for him to do the things that normal dads do. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality: she saw the family in the evening gambling at the dinner table, the young people massaging their elders’ backs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of this is normal, and there’s great comfort in that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Could that explain why sometimes otherwise normal people come to conclusions that are completely and catastrophically wrong? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wonder if we look normal to them, as if there's nothing special or brave about us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her mother wasn’t due back until tomorrow afternoon, and by then, Lexie had assumed, she would be back to normal, ready to pretend nothing had happened. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“See, sir, that ain’t your normal type of blot. It’s some kind of novel, philosophical blot.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t like a normal forward, who everyone knows is supposed to avoid the defense. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I leaned in and kissed him closely, my face against his, whiskers on whiskers, skin on skin, holding it there, longer than normal, in case it gave him even a split second of pleasure. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And also, that things will go back to normal for us—that he’ll be home before we know it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was the return to normal life. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Was it normal for him to not think or care about what that would mean to her, or to me? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I grew up with very normal, stable people,” Brooke continued. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother told me she had a girl on her caseload who suffered from it, and that once people learn to manage it, they can usually live normal enough lives. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"At least not to me. My folks are rocket scientists. This is pretty much as normal as it gets in this house." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Because her normal existence is so foreign to me, so intriguing to me, it starts to feel a little more interesting to her as well. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On Monday, I went back to school like normal. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After a good night’s sleep, Harry felt nearly back to normal. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If I make a break for it now, I could skip out on this and ride the bus home like normal. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Once I'm in the Schiaparelli Basin proper, I can count on the normal sandy terrain I'm used to. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Named Pocatell, the dog had curiously upright ears that were round as platters and roughly three times normal size. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Screen goes black, then dazzling white, then normal as lights go on. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is gonna sound ridiculous,” Two Step said, “but we could always, you know, climb down the stairs like normal people and then walk across the street to the next block.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Here was vital essence of the no-name peasant foundling who had the unforgivable habit of helping him for no good reason, all while looking guileless, as though it were a normal thing to do. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Pulse is normal. No tremors and no seizures, so I guess you’re okay.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s not bad talking to ghosts. Just bad if you want a ‘more normal life’ in this here world.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ms. Singh’s speech does not make things go back to normal. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It was normal to beat prisoners,” he said, explaining that his instructors taught him never to smile and to think of inmates as “dogs and pigs.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Occasionally this is attached to another so that the chromosome number remains the normal 46. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Really, Mrs. Weasley, just a normal dinner would be fine....It’s the day before the wedding....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was like she was so hungry for a normal eighth grader’s experiences that she needed to drink in mine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You heard what Fudge said. Black isn’t affected by Azkaban like normal people are. It’s not a punishment for him like it is for the others.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And for a little while longer he lay quietly with weak breathing, as if perhaps waiting for normal and natural conditions to reemerge out of the complete stillness. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is colder than normal and a sea of mostly unfamiliar faces press too close, saying some version of how sorry they are. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

What is on the other side is normal life. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

You tell some adult about what’s happening but all they do is say it’s normal. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then, acting as though everything is normal, I go to move past him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He took Stuart’s temperature and found that it was 98.6, which is normal for a mouse. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The masters on The Slave Isaura think it’s perfectly normal to own slaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as she waded deeper into the water, enjoying the fact that the swank was about to drag herself around in the filth like a normal person for once. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the Kennedys reigned like a king and queen in our country, I saw something in them that appeared normal and everyday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, why do we have to learn all these big words? Us people with normal brains. Not geniuses like Emma Lee and Philip,” Sue Ellen said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To them, everything on the train would seem quite normal. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was the main restroom, positioned right where the main hallway met the main staircase, and even on a normal day it was crowded. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the other people in the whole wide world might go on about their business, but for us it would never be normal again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family tried to carry on as normal, but we were tense all the time. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As far as the doctors could see, Henrietta’s cervix was normal again, and they felt no tumors anywhere else. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the sort of damage caused by normal, everyday gardening. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s about this meg normal guy, who doesn’t think about anything until one wacky day, when he meets a dissident with a heart of gold.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his breathing was almost normal, Clayton took another step and waited. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He did not have his magical eye, but two normal ones. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Taking it, Riddle said, “I can speak to snakes. I found out when we’ve been to the country on trips — they find me, they whisper to me. Is that normal for a wizard?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It feels like things are finally getting back to normal, and I don’t want to ruin it, but I need to say something. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I felt like a perfectly normal person, who was not cohabitating with a demon that forced me to think thoughts I hated thinking, and I was just feeling, like, I’ve been better this week. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

If I were a normal girl, it might even have made me laugh just a little. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was normal to see Congolese soldiers in the streets of Uvira with machine guns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Emma was more used to being around people whose clothes talked in a normal voice and didn’t say anything but, “Enh, look at me, don’t look at me, who cares?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It just felt normal and right, like slipping into a hot bubble bath. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m having a hard time breathing at a normal pace, like my body suddenly forgot. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I took three Tylenol at Aunt Kate’s house and I feel better, but my mouth feels like something died in there, and I can’t get it to feel normal. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except for a funny-shaped finger and that evil birthmark, she was free of any normal signs of vulnerability. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Butler and Juliet nodded, as though this were a normal briefing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarrelling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And as hard as it is, regular communication is what gets things back to normal. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then it was gone—his eyes returned to normal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This little grease hut feels like a slice of normal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The child was, uh, not normal. It is better to bury it quickly.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I closed my eyes, I could almost pretend it was a normal weekend at the Angel house, with Malcolm and Maud off at work, putting in overtime. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the Black Belt, there were signs of life returning to normal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’d been wishing for the chance to be a normal girl. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Glazier said slowly, around the wet plug, “Now I wouldn’t complain normal, Colonel, only if there’s goin’ to be a fight I got to keep an eye on my cousin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will it be awkward, or will we go back to normal? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had a sister, who had been sent to America with him at the same time to live with the uncle, who would graduate from normal school this year. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

No matter what it took, I wanted to pretend life was normal again. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone doesn’t ring, the doorbell doesn't ring, and my mother keeps smiling at me as if all is okay and everything is normal. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Things must be all right if there’s so much food,” Bri said, putting the groceries away in the cabinets, making them look full and normal again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The room is still dark, the floor still cold and hard, my heart still beating faster than normal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to be in the Army; I want to be normal. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But nothing of the killing sort. These were normal folks.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can start by rethinking what you mean by normal. Between you and me, I think normal is pretty overrated anyway.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I just had a few drinks, like a normal teenager. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Seeing her pupils shrink and explode back out to their normal size, it felt as though someone had wrapped a line of barbed wire around my brain and was tightening it with every passing second. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed so out of place, a reminder of how normal and ordinary his life had been when he left home this morning. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tea is their normal morning ritual, but having it in my bedroom is not. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I knew that was true, but I also knew the hollows would tear apart anything in their path, including a couple of normal girls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My avatar instantly shrank back to normal size, and my appearance returned to normal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger; so making a hasty toilet, I went into the other room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

August acted like this was the sort of normal behavior happening in every household in South Carolina. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one is allergic to anything that she thinks is too ‘normal.’ The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There are/were many reasons for this decision to run it after a lapse of twenty years, but for people with normal lives they do not seem even remotely logical. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To that, Uncle Tony didn't have a follow-up joke, like normal. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

So I stayed home and felt like a normal kid for a while. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights were on, my truck in its place, everything utterly normal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All day long, Pearl did her best impression of normal. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of them has a normal shoe on it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the end of the war, life returned to normal, and Shackleton began a world tour, speaking to audiences in big cities and outback villages about Endurance’s doomed voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the last two days trying to act completely normal, pretending I didn’t know that something dangerous and important was about to take place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A deafening horn blew, and the entire crowd of people who’d so far done a remarkable imitation of completely normal humans morphed into these rampaging beasts looking for free carnival rides. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Maurice’s slow answer emerged as no, he wouldn’t mind, my pulse rate returned to normal. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The changes shifted the station break ten minutes later than its normal point halfway through the show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her voice was surprisingly normal and friendly, and I wondered why it was she had taken the trouble to come up with my discarded sketch herself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

These changes are perfectly normal and happen to all young monsters. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not super-nice, like they go out of their way to hang out with me, but okay-nice, like they say hello to me and talk to me like normal. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Consider what would happen on a normal mission if the regulator valve broke. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a normal day, a few hours can contain long stretches of watch-checking, of empty time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Freed of normal constraints, some of the young let go of their inhibitions and, under cover of darkness, caressed one another, without any thought of others, alone in the world. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was normal again, stolid, dull, not the fey excited creature of the past few weeks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Last winter, Stella’s foot swelled to twice its normal size. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I forgot — it was the custard creams we hexed —” Within a minute, however, Neville had molted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had covered the blackboard in the office with “meaningless words and symbols” and began to conduct the meeting in what she seemed to feel was normal fashion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But everything is not normal, and when I don’t smile or laugh or talk back, she stops trying to make conversation. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mother Bear strolled along as if it were perfectly normal for a robot to be riding on her back. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out he was paying me three times what a normal saleslady earned! Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He continued to hold my gaze while my body slowly relaxed and the beeping returned to a normal pace. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She must’ve fought to believe that she was a normal person, just like everyone else, and not a gifted spiritist, linked to a legacy of magic. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Ibti, we’ve only been in high school for two months, and we are not going to kill any chance we have at having a normal social life by joining that team,” Ana said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing like normal Zamani. It takes years of study to learn; even then, not everyone can pick it up.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She could hear his heart beating loudly as though it were pumping double, triple its normal rate. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Now that the gates of hell are closed,” Hemme said in his normal, rougher tones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Colin suspected she’d be secretly pleased if he came home one night at three in the morning reeking of booze, because that would be normal. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

On a normal day, with no knife wound, I never would’ve let a detail like that go unnoticed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been lucky,” he said, “but it can’t last much longer. You’re young. You look normal and innocent. If you keep clear of people like me, you might stay alive for another fifty years.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I think I smiled a lot and everyone was talking and laughing and it all seemed so normal. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She looked at him and thought, It is never going to feel normal, not talking to Evan. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

As the day went on, the teachers tried to act as if everything were normal. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid I will never feel normal again. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Some Foretelling groups artificially arouse perversion in a normal person—injecting female or male hormones during the days before a session. It’s better to have a natural one. He’s willing to come; likes the notoriety.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the bandage over his right eye, he looks pretty normal. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He said “our zoologist” as if they were normal words to say in the course of everyday conversation, as if most people who reached a certain standing in life acquired a zoologist. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

This transient nature of the transmitting chemical is necessary to the normal functioning of the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the intense expression on her face is normal. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She opened the cab’s back door and waved at me to get in, like this was all completely normal. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I write back to tell him that it isn’t his fault, and that he has to get away from Reverend Poole and try to get back to his normal life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The train to Kielce is a normal passenger train, a strange contrast to our history on the railroad. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had zero intention of getting into “normal” with that abnormality. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were more spectators than normal as they held the men’s and women’s finals at the same time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“The hum of the machinery was steady and normal,” said Ronneberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried my best to act like it was a normal Sunday and go into church, but it didn’t feel right. I didn’t belong.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So it's like this: Something like a glass of water or a bowl of Cheerios starts out normal, but after it goes through me, it won't reflect light. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His eyes slid back into normal position, focused on Thomas, clinging to life. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His tone was as normal as his snoring throughout the night had been, while she lay awake, sweating, imagining the sound of bombing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“And then she sort of became normal again, and she couldn’t remember anything she’d said. Was it — was she making a real prediction?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even when things were normal, when Nan was alive and my mom was only depressed some of the time instead of all of the time, moments like this were rare. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“We just have to ride out the storm for a little while, then everything will be back to normal.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I shiver—it’s cold—far colder than is normal for summer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But just because no one knew didn’t mean things wouldn’t get back to normal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Mom acted like her normal self—nonchalant in the face of adversity. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And yet what Jimmy had felt for her was beyond normal love; it was passion—a passion that was in part pathological. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets of New York looked normal to them. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ainsley awkwardly shakes his hand, of course, while this new boy gives him a straight dap like a normal black dude. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were the most normal and representative variety of Hobbit, and far the most numerous. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mom’s been busy too, getting back to normal. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“They take perfectly normal people and turn their lives into pond scum. That’s why it’s fun to watch. If everything was perfect, there’d be no story.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At first, she still tries to pretend like everything is normal. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The earth would continue to function as normal, just as the sky did, but Gaia was now so dispersed and powerless that she could never again form a consciousness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The doctors wanted me to have a normal life. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Not sitting on its roof like a normal upside-down car would be, but flipped tires-to-the-sky, in midair, high enough to roll a basketball beneath it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Back home they probably would have had the decency to whisper, but here they felt free to say whatever they wanted, face-to-face and in a normal tone of voice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

These alterations don’t make him appear more normal, however, but more anomalous, like a creature from an alien planet disguised in human clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The excitement that came over me when I kissed her again communicated itself, and I was sure I could be normal with her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lately the moods have been bad, worse than normal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A handful of kids dressed up today, but most kids just wore normal clothes, or those don’t-actually-count costumes like baseball jerseys. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In his normal voice he said, “Well, I guess we might as well cut out. If we hang around, somebody’s going to read what’s on Ken’s question before tomorrow and that would ruin everything.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep American science in full flower, he asserted, what was needed was “a more leisurely and normal research environment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The whirlpools vanished, and the current returned to normal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Often I was at meetings all night and would sleep all day — not the normal schedule of an agricultural demonstrator. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Memories of Blue Eyes hit me rapid-fire, and I had to turn in a full circle to make sure my surroundings were normal. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“This. This isn’t normal. Guys like you don’t talk to girls like me.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

You need a tool to help you see it, but that third dimension is there, too tiny to see under normal conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I guess even though things are kind of getting back to normal, I can’t stop feeling like Gram failed me somehow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But for a short time at least, we would all live like normal people again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lay next to the corporal, whose eyes were redder than normal. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But these circumstances weren’t normal, and quite a bit had already been recalled about Shotgun Cheatham anyway. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounds normal, but her eyes are anything but. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I expected her to say something normal, like “I’ll tell him you stopped by,” so I don’t know how to respond. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They sculpted for themselves a virtual world where their coily, kinky, nappy, woolly hair was normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If it’s meant to be, we’ll find our way back to normal. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I think. Just stuffed up. Man, thanks so much for the food. I think I actually feel normal again.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I guess maybe it’s not rich by normal standards, but it was built in the last ten years and it’s gated. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome our fear.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A heel-shaped bruise darkened one shoulder and his hand was all swollen and I guess he looked tougher than normal, or maybe just more damaged. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I still had my eyes closed, but I was feeling more normal every minute. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Things may never get back to normal,” the scientist said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My breathing is almost back to normal when the door bangs open, and I jump. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

No man in his right senses would voluntarily choose such a life in preference to the one of normal, family, social life which exists in every civilized community. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next runs are normal, and by eight, the phones stop ringing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In my home, everything seems normal except for the mood. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I can fake being normal, and eventually I will be. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances he would gladly have given them to his friend, but this was different. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The veteran couples never did anything showy in public, going about in a sensible sort of way, like a mother and father might do in a normal family. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he came back and sat down as though this was as normal as talking on the telephone. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I shuddered when he gave me his answer in the most normal, natural tone of voice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I reminded myself throughout the day that curiosity was normal; I shouldn’t let it bother me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother was a pretty normal mom, but different at the same time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The results were somewhat startling: the highly gifted kids in the study weren't much more likely to become prominent intellectuals than normal kids. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of the summer seemed strange because it was so normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then to Kevin in a more normal tone, “I just think Daddy might have something to say to you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of saying, I’ll see you later, like a normal person, she shouts late at you, like she is too busy to be bothered with adding the r. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Something was off, something was wrong, very wrong, and they didn’t know what it was, but they knew it wasn’t normal because they had never seen anything like it before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We pretend that this life is normal, that it doesn’t matter that Mama’s not around, that it’s okay to live like this—hungry and angry and empty and wanting. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I want to believe we can have a normal life someday . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I inspected them to see that they appeared normal. On occasion, with some of these shipments, one or two animals were injured or had skin lesions.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made tables of how often other letters appeared in the message, then compared this with the distribution of letters in normal English. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You think you’re coasting, that somehow being in here has become normal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The next morning, and every day thereafter, I acted normal. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As I gazed from the high rock, all seemed calm, and completely normal. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was an epiphany: scientists had been trying for decades to grow immortal cell lines using normal cells instead of malignant ones, but it had never worked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Just that quickly, Olive made and lost the only normal friend she’d ever had. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He wanted everything to be back to normal. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Doctors’ families do tend to complain that they receive less medical attention than their friends and neighbors, but they seem a normal, generally healthy lot, with a remarkably low incidence of iatrogenic illness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slate-colored clouds veil the sky, and children shout in the shallow end, and parents talk or read magazines or doze in their chairs, and everything is normal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His legs were getting back to normal; the stick had been abandoned. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that this would’ve become normal for us. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Anorak's Almanac, I now thought of it as a normal bodily function, as necessary and natural as sleeping or eating. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It was a pretty normal day,” he tells me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing to her? Get away from her! I told you what I’d do to you if I ever caught you touching your sister again! Dirty mind! You don’t belong with normal people!” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been a very long journey, for there was no warren within the normal range of the Efrafan patrols. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound apart from the drip of water was the normal forest birdsong. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The classrooms, which look perfectly normal in the daytime, look strangely odd when it’s getting dark outside. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Since there is an equal chance of a marble bouncing left or right at each peg, the marble stacks in the bins below will, on average, form the classic bell-shaped curve of normal distribution.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

If he was going to end up in jail anyway, he might as well have gone through normal justice and avoided all this Circle baloney. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The first one, which is embarrassingly obvious, is that ESP runs afoul of the fundamental common- sense principle that the normal senses must somehow be involved for communication to take place. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way I was glad to find my father depressed, because that was a perfectly normal reaction to being in jail—and Dad acting normal wasn’t something you could take for granted. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She believed that the sooner I returned to my normal routine, the sooner I, and everyone else, would forget about The Incident. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The rhythm sounds normal but my heart feels very hollow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a normal year, being a mentor to the tributes is the stuff of nightmares. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the birds had quieted, like they’d gone to bed for the night, and the sound of insects was barely noticeable, or at least much less than normal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Annabelle wants to help him out, to get this thing done, so they can all get back to normal life, whatever that is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m a normal kid or something. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then everything was normal again, and the old fear, the hatred, and the bewilderment came crowding back again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And yet, after a few days, even that stopped and life seemed to return to normal. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

They trade normal diurnal rhythms for the perk of having very little inmate contact—at night, all the inmates are locked in their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara was the only one to whom the procedure seemed completely normal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how normal that is for me, I can’t get myself to stop shaking ’cause I can be alert as all hell right now and it won’t change what’s going down mad soon. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everything here is more or less back to normal. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s much worse than it was this morning, not surprisingly, and is swollen to twice its normal size. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She thought it needed to be done to give me a fair chance at a normal social life. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Just go back to normal with him, huh? Just talk to him, Will. I don't know if you've noticed, but everything goes better for you when you talk to people." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

There were no pictures, no mementos, none of the normal clutter of growing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Living in an institution with a myriad of regulations, it was impossible to lead a normal life. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Little girls shouldn't have to worry about their parents' issues, but I guess when you're eleven going on eighteen, it's normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

All the same, later on, when everything has returned to normal, I’ll probably wonder how we, who always lived in such comfortable circumstances, could have “sunk” so low. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This was my proper normal guns-and-bombs reaction, coming an hour and a half later than usual. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I see a lot of eyes on us, but that’s normal. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes ma’am it is,” Lydia said, with a markedly thicker Southern accent than normal. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It is a completely normal place, out of sight of the barn and house, close enough to the road that I can hear cars passing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The best part is, that she was a normal fifteen-year-old girl. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And he’s not very normal,” I said pointing to my head. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glow from an actual, normal conversation with Mom keeps me from thinking that the talent show might kill me, until about second period. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father has visited the institution in Calcutta twice—once without warning, hoping to see a transformed Moni, living a secretly normal life behind the barred gates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I ask, picking up a fry, trying to act like this is a normal lunchtime conversation between friends. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We were both twenty-four years old when you were born, the normal age for most Americans, but among the class we soon found ourselves, we ranked as teenage parents. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I will find her and send her a message in a low-key, normal sort of tone. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hanako concentrated on looking like a normal person, just out for a stroll while dragging a big bag. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And all those years ago, his skin had been gray and had faded to normal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In normal circumstances, I’d prefer to shoot someone who uses the word marvelous, but it suits Milla down to the ground. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As I walk down the aisle to my normal seat, I keep my chin held high, but I’m careful not to look at anyone. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And I did not like black socks, regardless of length, because they made my feet smell like Cool Ranch Doritos, which is not a normal smell for feet to have. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It burned with an unholy dripping glare for a minute, three times normal size, then dwindled. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen him before, and like normal in New York, I ignored him and went on about my business. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

No normal adult would believe in tiny people who lived under the floorboards. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“My eyes are almost back to normal,” said Eye. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We acted like everything was normal, making our sandwiches and wrapping them up like we planned to eat them at school. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s not like keeping a normal crush a secret, because we never talk about our crushes anyway, and it works out fine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It seems like a normal visit to Uncle Carlos’s house until we pass his neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Though I acted as though this was the most normal thing in the world, I was amazed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what makes it extra bad, see, is the poor dudes can’t horse around like normal. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean to eavesdrop, but I haven’t heard Mom’s voice in normal conversation for so long I can’t help it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was driving normal speed, taking its turn in the queue. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Ocean wasn’t looking at me when he said, quietly, “I have no idea how anyone is supposed to be normal around you. I can’t even be normal around you.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A defect that slightly weakened it, though it would not cause failure on a normal mission. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t Luke just pretend, even for a few minutes, that they were normal? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As the first-stage fuel tanks emptied, the G forces increased and pushed us back into our contoured seats at five times our normal weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My little brother, Kia, was sitting on the couch, eating graham crackers and watching cartoons, and I desperately tried to act normal around him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The chupacabras’s mordida had left three ugly lacerations two inches above her ankle, on the outside of her leg, so both her ankle and calf were swollen to twice their normal size. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It should never be solved with the “just look the other way,” normal approach to solving trials. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It felt oddly normal to be back in Austin. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Above all, it didn’t answer any of the questions that the illustration stirred up in a normal inquiring mind: How did we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nye, whose normal voice is cuttingly nasal and naturally intimidating, was attempting a subdued timbre, a disarming, throwaway style. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The covers on the couch were neatly folded when I passed by this morning, which is normal for a Friday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He climbed past the first two floors, where Soviet clerks did normal consulate work, like helping Soviet citizens get travel visas. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was it normal for my father, like all the parents I knew, to reach for his belt? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In normal conditions, they wouldn’t have worked the horse, but Seabiscuit couldn’t afford to miss another workout before meeting War Admiral. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand how you guys are acting all normal,” I say. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The cat shrank back to his normal size. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teresa yawned, as if life were completely normal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t it just be normal teenage stunts that we all do in high school? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could it be normal, that traveler dying? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

We were all waiting for the atmospheric pressure to return to normal. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Black market vendors left their normal posts in front of theaters and cinemas, and stationed themselves in front of the Dom Sindikata to peddle entrance tickets to the match, which were in great demand. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I chafed at the delays, but held my peace, trusting that if I showed myself to be responsible and meticulously careful, he would eventually relax and things would return to normal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Except for this strange movement and the bandages from the surgery, he looked normal, no swelling, no bruises. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Warburg believes that either radiation or a chemical carcinogen acts by destroying the respiration of normal cells, thus depriving them of energy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While most kids just stare, the only kid who never misses a chance to tell me I’m not normal is Stephen Hobert. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But I tried to act normal and spend time with a normal boy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When solid sulfur is heated a little past the normal boiling point of water, to about 115°C, it melts and changes color. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a woman’s head, blown up to twice the size of a normal head. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Art history is boring to those of us with normal brains,” Oliver chimed in. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might go off at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Things are fluttering back to normal here too, Axel thinks. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Aside from being heavy, they seem pretty normal. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Why is it that we as geeks, freaks, nerds, dorks, dweebs .. . have to suffer while the clueless, bow-headed, testosterone- poisoned "normal" people are allowed to get away with murder? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pounding started up in my ears, as if my blood pressure had shot up above normal, which is what Mum says happens to her when Kat drives her distracted. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, all she wanted was to be “normal,” to speak English perfectly and go to business school, and never seem strange to anybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A woman who took an almost perverse pleasure in flaunting the normal order. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In these respects the United States is a thoroughly “normal” country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the insults and humiliation the vlei people had endured from normal folk bubbled up like hot acid. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes went back to normal size and got real soft. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Darkness shrank and the shadows from which it had emerged returned to their normal shapes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It takes a few minutes for my heart to return to normal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of their granddaughters later wrote that “at Down ill health was considered normal.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once or twice, when the normal process of evaporation is deemed too slow, I am assigned to dry a scrubbed floor by putting rags under my feet and skating around on it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the new normal, the new racial equilibrium. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m all right,” she said, her voice returning to normal. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I sometimes felt as if I were floating through a strange universe, waving at strangers who acted as if they knew me, boarding planes that lifted me out of my normal world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And if anyone saw her, they would think that this was the way she was supposed to be, that it was perfectly normal to be a thing created out of the lack of something else. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I have to remind myself that normal people feel this way, too: The desire to take a moment and make it last forever. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I tried to sound normal, but I didn’t. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After cleaning out his stomach with emetics, she wrapped him in hot blankets and fed him egg whites for two days until his harrowed body recovered its normal temperature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I suppose there’d be a dozen or so, sir. About normal.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even his closest friend, Okwudiba, often told him how humble he was, and it irked him slightly, because he wished Okwudiba would see that to call him humble was to make rudeness normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma sounded so casual, as if it were completely normal to have us visit, as if we had visited so many times in the past. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It sometimes felt like a throwback to some lost era, when a household revolved solely around the man's needs, and it was the opposite of what I wanted our daughters to think was normal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Pretend that when I have to go back to school, things are going to be normal again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

If they seemed normal and healthy, she’d offer to take the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice never sounded normal until after coffee. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, here I was having an actual relationship with a girl, something that happens to normal people, and Rondell was just laying here asleep after beating people up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A normal person would feel a shard of remorse, but not Butler. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I sit like normal in my kitchen with the Doorman and the Ace of Diamonds. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He swung the paddle, and the glass fell inward with a crash that might have sounded loud in normal circumstances but that he could hardly hear for the noise of the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In a sound wave, then, there is no displacement wherever the air molecules are at a normal density. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Went cycling with Amélie and Mitraillette, my first sortie looking for landing fields—three girls on bicycles, you know, having a jolly afternoon out together, what could be more normal? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were a few normal people as well, but they faded into insignificance next to the predatory forms moving gracefully through the halls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she says, “those girls are okay but they’re so normal. It’s boring.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Like, we just met each other and now we’re eating burgers like it’s a normal day.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Despite everything, the young woman had led a nearly normal life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean you have to keep it like that until it comes back normal?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The normal way to lose an arm, leg, or whatever in Milagro was by having it mangled in tractor sickle bars or crushed beneath a horse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was normal for her to do this sort of thing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it’s normal to have feelings for two people. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They had to hope the creatures would keep to their normal schedule and not come out during daytime hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time since Edie’s text, things feel kind of normal. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Under any normal circumstances he would have leapt to the defense of a man victimized as that man had been. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I thought I was the one who was special and everyone else was normal. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As normal cells go through life, their telomeres shorten with each division until they’re almost gone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If it was up to me there would only be two kinds: the normal size and the cherry size. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I, for once, felt completely normal among this group of misfits. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A morose cloud had settled around the man’s shoulders, and Emily didn’t know him well enough to understand if that was normal or due to his dwelling on Mr. Griswold. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Freak and the Fair Gwen have supper with us, and we're all trying to pretend like everything is normal, and nobody says a word about Killer Kane getting out of prison. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I missed the normal crunch of gravel as I walked. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My attempt to act normal was not helped by the fact that every little noise or fleeting movement made me jump. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

According to Ms. Epstein, “She seemed fine, normal. She was in a good mood, she was talking about doing something special for her thirtieth birthday next month.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hopes of being a part of normal activities had long since faded. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the normal ear, even with amplification, the clicks would have seemed uniform. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"Looks like rain," I tell her, in an effort to keep things normal. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On many study areas aquatic insects and other stream-bottom fauna were reduced to a tenth of their normal populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There is excitement in the air, the feeling that things are almost back to normal since President Kennedy died; 1964 is a fresh, new year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a normal thing in our neighborhood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s so weird how a person can be a normal part of your everyday life, and then just disappear. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This was a normal glow, nothing to get excited about, that faint green. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so nice about it, Percy thought she must be a monster in disguise; but Hedge pulled him aside and assured him that Esther smelled like a normal human. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Do you talk like normal or do something special? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Genie hesitated—why was everyone acting so normal? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s normal to be a little scared, Georges.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Am I normal," I said aloud just to hear my voice, "talking to myself in a wood like this?" Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There’s the normal stuff you’d expect to see in a drainage ditch: old tires, rusty shopping carts, broken sofas that seem to have fallen from space—a brand new obstacle course. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She puts on her poker face; I don’t have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boy kept his head down and seemed to be in a hurry, though he wasn’t running in a normal way; it was more of a wobbly lurch. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I know Ma’s a witch, nothing seems normal. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He has sandy-colored hair, which is normal for a mortal but is unusual for a faerie, and ears that come to very subtle points. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

—Did you talk to the counselors there about returning to normal school activities, including basketball? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minders greet everyone in their usual too-cheerful-to-be-sincere tones, pretending that everything is normal. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By comparing the C’4 level in bones and wooden implements to the normal level in living tissues, Libby reasoned, scientists should be able to determine the age of these objects with unheard-of precision. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was later on, when she was sure her prayers had been answered, and Norma showed all signs of normal intelligence, that my mother’s voice began to sound different. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re hideous. A troll snuck into my room at night, took my normal feet for himself, and left me with his thuggish troll feet.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Sleeping meds and narcotics didn’t do for me what they did for normal people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was familiar with the challenges associated with reforming institutions in which racial stratification is thought to be normal—the natural consequence of differences in education, culture, motivation, and, some still believe, innate ability. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His brother would be done playing his music, and everything could just be normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’m sweating more than normal and I take big drinks of water as Manchee finishes his meal. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And he was swallowing blood, trying to look normal as he made his way, limping, back to the main palace. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His adrenal gland, by degrees, ceased jumping its several secretions into his bloodstream; his heart slowed to normal, his breathing became less frantic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The problem is, it is normal. At least for a little longer. And then...” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were bickering about something, which made it easier to pretend that everything was normal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Is normal never being sure of what normal really is? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When her mother’s around, Twig becomes almost normal. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lying still in the dark, I try to imagine that everything is normal again. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enchantments they had cast around themselves ought to be sufficient, in the near total darkness, to shield them from the notice of Muggles and normal witches and wizards. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

These clumps grew so large, particularly in the absence of oxygen, that they tugged the membrane of the red cell until the normal disk was warped into a crescent-shaped, dysmorphic “sickle cell.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

While certain insects overran us, some of the other normal inhabitants of our property, such as earthworms, disappeared. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We took our normal path to school, but before we even got to the front gate, a group of boys called to Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They chat with me like everything is normal, like he hasn’t been expelled, and Kate pulls something out of the freezer and sets the temperature on the oven. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Baby, there’s no such thing as normal right now!” says Momma. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Do they know how long it will take before things get back to normal?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You should be — a normal person would be. You don’t even look shaken.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Although I didn’t want to start before Labor Day, when the nation settles back to normal living, I did want to get used to my turtle shell, to equip it and learn it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither was Sarai, but she thought if they could act normal, they might feel normal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I find my cousins at their normal spot, around the lobster tank, where Sheryl taps on the glass. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Consistently do what is right in common situations and know how to behave and dress in normal situations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She hardly ever spoke in a normal voice. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you’re from a normal family, you probably think that part was a joke. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Under more normal circumstances, the god could have commanded them with a snap of his fingers, but not tonight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I’m still very aware of it, but other people treat me like I’m normal. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t crying, but they seemed to hang a little lower than normal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He would have preferred to escape back into normal life, the clang of the bell, the crowds of familiar faces, instead of sitting here, trapped inside the house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And things were back to normal except we were just friends. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Except Mom doesn't laugh like a normal person. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was all very soothing, and as soon as the fog of worry dissipated, everyone’s normal hearty breakfast appetites returned, including Penelope’s. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When it reaches a normal rate, the screen flashes green and the Dauntless cheer. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Not that she could tell me that in a normal way. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Kat told her in a quiet voice, not like her normal voice, all about the strange man, the free ticket, tracking the pod and waiting for Salim to come down, and how he hadn’t. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is because, when liver function is disturbed, the cholinesterase level drops below normal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I want someone to understand that I might not be normal, but this—the numbers, the OCD—is my normal. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he turns back and speaks again, his voice is a little louder, almost normal. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could tell that Dad hated how much I hurt, and that he wanted to make everything all normal again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking that’s what you were doing on the porch. Honestly, Sparrow, I don’t know. Is this normal? What does this mean for her?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

May sounded so normal and happy right then, I couldn’t imagine how she’d gotten the way she was—one minute laughing and the next overrun with everybody’s misery. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, of course, a normal, adult-size deck chair, and he looked distinctly small in it, but at file same time, he looked perfectly relaxed, even serene. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“If high school is that important to you, just go,” she’d say after I’d explained yet again how much I dreamed about just being a “normal” teenager. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A few times I try to form a question so it sounds casual and normal, but each time the words get caught somewhere in my throat and never make it out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If they were normal Noisy people, it wouldn’t matter how far back on the trail I was, we could all talk together and nobody’d have no automatic secrets. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Messages from my friends are pretty normal, but I even get a text from Mr. Kazilly! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s normal to lose some memory when you hit your head really hard,” I say finally. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The market square inside the Gate of the Gods, which in normal times would have been thronged with farmers selling vegetables, was near deserted when Tyrion crossed it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s normal,” he said, and she remembered how he had always been quick to reassure her, to make her feel better. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nyame had shifted to a normal size now—a bit shorter than Granddad—and he wore a cream-and-dark-brown-striped tunic and loose cream pants. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A part of me thought things would never be normal again. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I hate that this sad, I-give-up silence between us is normal, that our hug on Saturday is the strange thing. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her mother sought professional advice about Cadence’s behavior and was advised that it appeared a normal part of the grieving process. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was the first night of the visit, so that was normal. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know things have been hard, Mira, since I lost my job. I’m sorry we can’t replace the phone, but I promise that as soon as I’m working again, everything will go back to normal.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Rose, it wont do any good pretending any longer that nothing is wrong. Just look at him, Rose. Six years old, and—” “He’s not a dummy. He’s normal. He’ll be just like everyone else.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s voice—thin and suspicious—had returned to normal, and his old, envious personality was back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was reach out and claim my tray, and the world would be perfectly normal. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They both looked perfectly normal for a Tuesday morning. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Copy it out now in a normal hand," the stranger said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Although his heart rate was still too high, his temperature and breathing became normal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The disease had advanced very quickly, and had taken him to the point where he was nearly incapable of leading a normal fife. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neville performed a series of quite astonishing gymnastics he would certainly not have been capable of in his normal state. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In examining Mersault’s life, the judges see his detachment and come to the conclusion that a man who is so detached from normal human feelings is more likely to kill. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

How could I have actually thought that just because I had one okay week that things were going to be normal again? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I hated the fact that I couldn’t be a normal kid, like the kids around me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s corned beef so you can make sandwiches for lunch,” Aunty Uju had said, as though those words were perfectly normal and did not require a humorous preamble about how Americans ate bread for lunch. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I reattached the return air line to the regulator and things got back to normal. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d worked a full month at the nursing home without the normal complaints, she and Miss Esther were regulars at ladies’ night bingo, and she went to Holly’s classes once a week. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“We wouldn’t last five minutes out there! You can at least hope to pass for normal. But one look at me . . .” She wiggled her forearm-less body. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The fever would soon be over, and our lives would return to normal. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It weis normal to see a faint glow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here years of travel probably stood me in good stead, although in my normal life I usually enter new situations in some respected, even attention-getting role like “guest lecturer” or “workshop leader.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all very well in the flood, when everything was upside down, but when the water retreated and normal life emerged...Well, actually, nothing would be normal and safe ever again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“What does she mean, ‘the normal way’?” he spat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In normal times, scientists from around the world freely shared new ideas and theories. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran them through his fingers, foot after foot of them, described them as “normal” to the microphone, put them in a bucket on the floor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Life was going along like normal, you know? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grace closed her eyes, praying that it was a dream, that she could go back in time and wake up in her bed a year ago and have everything go back to normal. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Sex is a normal part of the human experience, but unfortunately many people attach a great deal of shame to it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So if the ideas of relativity seem weird, it is only because we don’t experience these sorts of interactions in normal life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My bumps would be ironed out, my nose would be made almost normal, and my eyes would be moved slightly closer together. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Nathan wanted to make a joke to lighten the mood and pretend like things were normal. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was slightly larger than normal, black plastic. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

That’s got to be at least one of the benefits of heaven—never having to act normal again. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

So close to normal, and then, just like that, we’re back to this new, terrible normal where I’m stuck inside my room crying, listening to her downstairs cleaning up my dishes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But I was beginning to wonder if a normal teenage experience was even a thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he’s not fighting crime, Bruce dresses like a normal adult. advocate. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A normal Blackcliff student would beat me for touching him without permission—and this is no student, but an Aspirant and the Commandant’s spawn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t you deny it or report it or do something normal?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If you was paddling to London,” said Alice, “and the river was normal and there wasn’t no flood, how long would it take?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sofia emerges from her bedroom, sees me, and gives me a hug, holding me for a second longer than normal, and then pulls back, smiling weakly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But it was hard when everything seemed normal, the movie and the soda in my hands. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trade had halted last fall when the storms began, and business had not returned to normal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Five years later, scientists in Cambridge pinpointed the difference between the protein chain of normal hemoglobin and “sickled” hemoglobin to a change in a single amino acid.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He'd been out of the hospital for a month but still hadn't yet filled out to his normal size. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The child looked perfectly normal: a sleeping baby boy, fine new hair in a black cap over his head, a small nose, a bow of a mouth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’d been mostly normal since our conversation on Christmas, but she always looked a little nervous when the competition came up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Actually, she was whining considerably less than she had when things were normal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dear, wretched Frank, who had not understood, who had always thought we were the normal happy married couple we pretended to be. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I remember I felt like I’d never get warm again, even when they told me my body temperature was normal. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I forced myself into a longer warm-up routine than normal, including some basic calisthenics and my usual stretching routine, but I couldn’t shake the fatigue I was feeling. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If I could just pretend to be normal for a little while, maybe it would feel like the truth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Instead he just stared at me with this little grin on his face—and not the psycho one I was used to either, just a normal one. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The thermometer says I’m normal, but clearly I’m not. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your arms and faces are perfectly normal arms and faces, and I don’t want to listen to the two of you bickering the whole way home.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I guess June doesn’t care that we do, though, because after she blinked a few times at our Jesus decorations, she kept walking toward the TV like everything was normal. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Different meant that you were not responsible for the normal things in life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was twisting and whipping in a way that waren’t one bit normal. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A normal spleen is a soft sack with a drippy red center, which reminded Dalgard of a jelly doughnut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head felt light, my tongue its normal size. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, his demotion would have given Strauss an opening to lobby against the test ban; but Eisenhower was losing patience with Strauss, too, largely because of his intransigence on that very topic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z