“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?”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“The lake was like a mirror, sky and earth lay there upside down.”
― The Birds
― The Birds
“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
“Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“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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