Gena Robertson > Gena's Quotes

“Could he really do the gruesome things he does to her and believe at the same time that he’s acting out of love? Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence?”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He did gradually start to wonder why all their classroom discussions were so abstract and lacking in textual detail, and eventually he realised that most people were not actually doing the reading. They were coming into college every day to have heated debates about books they had not read. He understands now that his classmates are not like him. It's easy for them to have opinions, and to express them with confidence. They don't worry about appearing ignorant or conceited.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“If she was different with Connell, the difference was not happening inside herself, in her personhood, but in between them, in the dynamic.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“And hopefully I have changed, you know, as a person. But honestly, if I have, it's because of you.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“That's money, the substance that makes the world real. There's something so corrupt and sexy about it”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He understands now that his classmates are not like him. It’s easy for them to have opinions, and to express them with confidence. They don’t worry about appearing ignorant or conceited. They are not stupid people, but they’re not so much smarter than him either. They just move through the world in a different way, and he’ll probably never really understand them, and he knows they will never understand him, or even try.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People