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“In just a few weeks' time Marianne will live with different people, and life will be different. But she herself will not be different. She'll be the same person, trapped inside her own body. There's nowhere she can go that would free her from this.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“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.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”
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“life is terrifying and overwhelming and it can happen at any moment. And when you're confronted with life, you can either be cowardly or you can be brave, but either way you're going to live. So you might as well be brave.”
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“I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.”
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