" Just normal,' Mum says, 'I'm just normal.'
No, I think to myself, my mum's anything but normal. Even the omelette she's making right now is anything but normal. There are bits of eggshell in it and it's stuck to the bottom of the frying pan, and both the white and the yolk have dried out. She's stopped using butter and she's forgotten the salt and pepper again. "

― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld , The Discomfort of Evening