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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
“He knows that a lot of the literary people in college see books primarily as a way of appearing cultured, 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. Even the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing.”
― 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
“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
“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
“It was true, Peggy and Jamie were not very good people; bad people even, who took joy in putting others down. Marianne feels aggrieved that she fell for it, aggrieved that she thought she had anything in common with them, that she'd participated in the commodity market they passed off as friendship. In school she had believed herself to be above such frank exchanges of social capital, but her college life indicated that if anyone in school had actually been willing to speak to her, she would have behaved just as badly as anyone else. There is nothing superior about her at all. (194-195)”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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