Jeanette Winterson Quotes

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

You can be special without being extraordinary.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

My life is anything but typical.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason.

In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

To be different is a gift. To be ordinary is common.

Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

Excellent things are rare.

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary.

Every life is extraordinary.