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“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I don't know what's wrong with me, says Marianne. I don't know why I can't be like normal people.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Her eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them. Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
Morgan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Morgan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
345 books
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54 friends
601 books
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230 friends
360 books
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1,634 friends
1,073 books
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54 friends
322 books
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3,492 friends
145 books
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152 friends
469 books
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195 friends
573 books
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1,465 friends
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