“She looked like a piece of religious art. It was so much more painful to look at her than anyone had warned him it would be, and he wanted to do something terrible, like set himself on fire or drive his car into a tree.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I don't know why I can't make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It feels like such a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn't realize how starved id been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness.”
― Catching Fire
― Catching Fire
“She felt happy to be surrounded by people she liked, who liked her. She knew if she wanted to speak, everyone would probably turn and listen out of sincere interest, and that made her happy too, although she had nothing at all to say.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Marianne wonders what it would be like to belong here, to walk down the street greeting people and smiling. To feel that life was happening here, in this place, and not somewhere else far away.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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