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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
“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― 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
“Their feelings were suppressed so carefully in everyday life, forced into smaller and smaller spaces, until seemingly minor events took on insane and frightening significance. It was permissible to touch each other and cry during football matches.”
― 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
“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
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