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“He can’t help Marianne, no matter what he does. There’s something frightening about her, some huge emptiness in the pit of her being. It’s like waiting for a lift to arrive and when the doors open nothing is there, just the terrible dark emptiness of the elevator shaft, on and on forever. She’s missing some primal instinct, self-defense or self-preservation, which makes other human beings comprehensible. You lean in expecting resistance, and everything just falls away in front of you.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“feeling a strange sense of nostalgia for a moment that was already in the process of happening.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“He was death and rage and fire and anyone stupid enough to forget that would be consumed by his inferno.”
― Kingdom of the Wicked
― Kingdom of the Wicked
“What do you want from us? The dumb girls are too dumb, the smart girls are too smart, and the average girls are too unexceptional?”
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
“He was like a freezer item that had thawed too quickly on the outside and was melting everywhere, while the inside was still frozen solid. Somehow he was expressing more emotion than at any time in his life before, while simultaneously feeling less, feeling nothing.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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