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  1. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

    All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters
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  2. Rebecca McNutt _ Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog

    Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren't the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary," Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully. "Sydney Tar Ponds," Mearth added, "I've had so many ordinary people as friends in my life that by now I've forgotten all their names. At first it was difficult… very sad… to see them always leaving, dying, disappearing, ignoring, but after a while I realized that they weren't worth the trouble. I'd rather be in the company of other Personifications. At least they aren't always dropping dead like houseflies or sailing away to parts unknown. Nil sa saol seo ach ceo, i ni bheimid beo, ach seal beag gearr. Wouldn't you agree?" "No," Alecto told her. "I think you're insane.
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  3. Rebecca McNutt _ Mandy and Alecto: The

    Alecto… what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth's super 8 films, those powers of yours… how would they react?" "I don't know," said Alecto, "but ordinary people like a show, especially when it's a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery… probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films… they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess." "All joking aside, Alecto.…" "Who is joking, Mandy Valems?
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  4. Rebecca McNutt _ Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog

    There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naïve at times, she wasn't stupid.
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  5. Anne Lamott _ Grace (Eventually): Thoughts

    I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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  7. Mitch Albom _ The Five People You Meet in

    It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.
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  8. Mitch Albom _ For One More Day

    You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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