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"When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that."

i know it is already my fourth reread of this book THIS year BUT this time i am annotating it for a friend

“If she was different with Connell, the difference was not happening inside herself, in her personhood, but in between them, in the dynamic.”

“he fears being around her, because of the confusing way he finds himself behaving, the things he says that he would never ordinarily say.”

"I just don't have a lot of people who I really click with. You know, I struggle with that. Here I feel like people don't like me that much."

"Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence?"

"I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know why I can't be like normal people. I don't know why I can't make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born."

"I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me."

“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.”

Rereading it just to feel something again