normal people quotes
normal people has been lavished with praise from critics , long listed for the Man Booker prize and adapted for television by the BBC .
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normal people isn't out to inspire , instruct , entetain or talk down to anyone , which makes it something of refreshing anomly in current fiction about YOUNG PEOPLE .it is a novel that simply presents the truth of youthful experiences without the filters of nostalgia and sentimentality .it invites you to inhabit the psyche of someone else -two someone elses : Connell and Marianne , to identify with them ,to feel their turmoil and pain .for the reader who connects with that ,it's wracking .
normal people quotes by Sally Rooney .
Marianne quotes :
-"she tries to be a good person . but deep down she knows she is a bad person , corrupted wrong and all her efforts to be right , to hav ethe right opinions , to say the right things , these efforts only disguise what is buried inside her . the evil part of herself ."
-" Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away , happening without her , and she doesn't know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it . she had that feeling in school often , but it wasn't accompanied by any specific images of what the real life might look like . all she knew was that when it started , she would'nt need to imagine it anymore ."
-"he seemed to think Marianne had access to a range of different identities , between which she slipped effortlessly ."
-" she usually felt confined inside one single personality , which was always the same regardless of what she did or said . she had tried to be different in the past , as kind of an experiment , but it had never worked . if she was different with Connell , the difference wasn't happening inside herself , in her personhood , but in between them , in the dynamic ".
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| marianne from normal people |
- "she has never beleived herself to be fit to be loved by anyperson but now she has a new life , of which this is the first moment , and even after many years have passed she will still think : yes , that was it ,the beginning of my life ."
- "she did not all together as far as Connell knew , actually liked herself , but praise from other people seemed as irrelevant to her as dissaproval had been in school ."
-" i don't know what's wrong with me , says Marianne . 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 ."
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| marianne in normal people by sally rooney |
-“Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong against the weak, and she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could only help a few people. It was so much harder to reconcile herself to the idea of helping a few, like she would rather help no one than do something so small and feeble”.
-“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.”
-"she feels like a soft piece of cloth that is wrung out and dripping ."
Connell quotes :
-"lately he's been consumed by a sense that he is in fact two seperate people , and soon he will have to choose which person to be on a full time basis , and leave the other person behind ."
-"it suggests to Connell that the same imagination he uses as a reader is necessary to understand real people also , and to be intimate with them ".
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| connel in normal people |
-" he feels like he ruined the life of everyone who has ever even marginally liked him " .
-"he reache the passage in Emma when it seems like mr.knightly is going to marry Harriet and he had to close the book and walk home in a state of strange emotional agitation ."
-" by then Connell was so exausted and miserable he couldn't even summon up a response .thnigs happened to him , like the crying fits , the panic attacks , byt they seemed to descend on him from outside , rather than emanating from somewhere inside himself .internally he felt nothing .he was like a freezer item that had thawed too quickly on the outside and was metling everywere , while the inside was still frozen solid . somehow he was expressing more emotion than at any time in his life before , while simultaneously feeling less , feeling nothing ."
-"he felt the old beat of pleasure inside his body , like watching a perfect goal , like the rustling movement of light throught leaves , a phrase of music from the window of a passing car . life offers up these moments of joy despite everything ."
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-"“People are a lot more knowable than they think they are.”
-"“Multiple times he has tried writing his thoughts about Marianne down on paper in an effort to make sense of them. He's moved by a desire to describe in words exactly how she looks and speaks. Her hair and clothing. The copy of Swann's Way she reads at lunchtime in the school cafeteria, with a dark French painting on the cover and a mint-coloured spine. Her long fingers turning the pages. She's not leading the same kind of life as other people. She acts so worldly at times, making him feel ignorant, but then she can be so naive. He wants to understand how her mind works... He writes these things down, long run-on sentences with too many dependent clauses, sometimes connected with breathless semicolons, as if he wants to recreate a precise copy of Marianne in print, as if he can preserve her completely for future review.”
-" he finds himself crossing things out in his jounal as if he imagines some future person poring over it in detail , as if he wants the future person t know which ideas has thought better off ."
quotes of Marianne and Connell's relashionship :
- "if he silently decides not to say something when they're talking .Marianne will ask 'what ?' within one or two seconds . this ' what ' questions seems to him to contain sp much not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place , but a desire for total communication a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcomed interruption between them ' ."
-" Marianne he says im not a religious person but i do sometimes think God made you for me " .
-"he senses a certain receptivity in her expression like she's gathering information about his feelings , something they have learned to do to each other over a long time , ike speaking a private language . he can feel his face get warm as she looks at him but he doesn't want to look away . he can gather information from her face too .he gathers that she has things she wants to tell him ."
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-"he wants to say : you look like an angel . ..but he can't talk like that in front of people anyway , saying whimsical affectionate things ."
- " he holds her tightly , his body adjusting itself to hers like the kind of matress that's supposedly good for you . she softens into his arms . she starts to seeem calmer .their breathing slows into one rhythm ."
-" dwelling on the sight of Connell's face always gives marianne a certain pleasure which can be inflicted by a number of other feelings depending on the minute interplay of conversation and mood ."
- "his appearance is like a favourite piece of music to her , sounding different each time ."
-"he cant help Marianne , no matter what he does . there's something frightening about her ,some huge emptiness in the pit of her being . it's like waiting for a lift to arrive and when the door opens nothing is there , just the terrible dark emptiness of the elevator shaft on and on forever .she's missing some primal instict , sekf-defence or self-perservaton , which makes other people comprehensable .you lean in expecting resistance , and everything just falls away in front of you .still , he would die for her at any minute , which is the only thing he knows about himself that makes him feel like a worthwhile person ."
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