Quotes From Normal People by Sally Rooney

NORMAL PEOPLE QUOTES

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“People are a lot more knowable than they think they are.”

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”

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

“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.”

“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”

“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.”

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”

“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”

“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”

“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”

“Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.”

“It suggests to Connell that the same imagination he used as a reader is necessary to understand real people also, and to be intimate with them.”

“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”