“She feels that even she doesn’t know what her family are like, that she’s never adequate in her attempts to describe them, that she oscillates between exaggerating their behavior, which makes her feel guilty, or downplaying it, which also makes her feel guilty, but a different guilt, more inwardly directed”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“MARIANNE I don’t know what’s wrong with me. CONNELL In what way? MARIANNE I don’t know why I can’t make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born. CONNELL Lots of people love you, Marianne. Okay? Your family and friends love you. MARIANNE You don’t know my family.”
― Normal People: The Scripts
― Normal People: The Scripts
“Sometimes I think I deserve bad things because I'm a bad person.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“He was really laughing then. Marianne, he said, I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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