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“It suggests to Connell that the same imagination he used as a reader is necessary to understand real people also, and to be intimate with them.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
“In water, like in books—you can leave your life.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
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