How long do we all have to keep being extra considerate because you’re the family nebach — while you have this magic dispensation to be bitter and grouchy?,Normal Like Me: Chapter 10,How long do we all have to keep being extra considerate because you’re the family nebach — while you have this magic dispensation to be bitter and grouchy?
On the one hand, she hadn’t wanted him. On the other hand, she’d already begun getting used to the idea that he would be her husband,Normal Like Me: Chapter 8,On the one hand, she hadn’t wanted him. On the other hand, she’d already begun getting used to the idea that he would be her husband
“Would you suggest to a baalas teshuvah that she come to a family wedding in a sleeveless dress so her parents won’t be embarrassed?” I almost yelled,Normal Like Me: Chapter 7,“Would you suggest to a baalas teshuvah that she come to a family wedding in a sleeveless dress so her parents won’t be embarrassed?” I almost yelled
“I don’t want to be ‘back to normal’! ” Tzadok insisted. “I have a mission. I was given a gift! I won’t destroy it with a drug”,Normal Like Me: Chapter 6,“I don’t want to be ‘back to normal’! ” Tzadok insisted. “I have a mission. I was given a gift! I won’t destroy it with a drug”
White people, she’d heard, almost never painted their faces. That was so stupid. Wasn’t it bad enough that they were so pale and colorless, like skeletons?,Normal Like Me: Chapter 5,White people, she’d heard, almost never painted their faces. That was so stupid. Wasn’t it bad enough that they were so pale and colorless, like skeletons?
He — the child always a bit behind, a bit slow; the reject, the anxiety-ridden young man who was never good enough — he was a prophet now