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She believes Marianne lacks “warmth,” by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.
They just move through the world in a different way, and he’ll probably never really understand them, and he knows they will never understand him, or even try.
He had thought that being with her would make him feel less lonely, but it only gave his loneliness a new stubborn quality, like it was planted down inside him and impossible to kill.
Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.
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.
