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Youssef Maurice
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“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
― 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
“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“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
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