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"I'm turning the pages, and very suddenly and drastically Charles goes from nearly killing Adam over envy and hurt, to writing Adam regularly, expressing raw emotion like longing and affection. I wish so badly for this character development to be genuine, but I struggle with understanding how it's come about. And the suddenness of the change alarms me. I'm scared of Charles and for what he might do." — Oct 19, 2025 11:51PM
"I'm turning the pages, and very suddenly and drastically Charles goes from nearly killing Adam over envy and hurt, to writing Adam regularly, expressing raw emotion like longing and affection. I wish so badly for this character development to be genuine, but I struggle with understanding how it's come about. And the suddenness of the change alarms me. I'm scared of Charles and for what he might do." — Oct 19, 2025 11:51PM
“How strange to feel herself so completely under the control of another person, but also how ordinary. No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― 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. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“From a young age her life has been abnormal, she knows that. But so much is covered over in time now, the way leaves fall and cover a piece of earth, and eventually mingle with the soil. Things that happened to her then are buried in the earth of her body.”
― 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
“Suddenly he can spend an afternoon in Vienna looking at Vermeer’s The Art of Painting, and it’s hot outside, and if he wants he can buy himself a cheap cold glass of beer afterwards. It’s like something he assumed was just a painted backdrop all his life has revealed itself to be real: foreign cities are real, and famous artworks, and underground railway systems, and remnants of the Berlin Wall. That’s money, the substance that makes the world real. There’s something so corrupt and sexy about it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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