terça-feira, 6 de outubro de 2020

Normal People (Sally Rooney)

 Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 268-269 | Added on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 10:26:45 PM


Their secret weighed inside her body pleasurably, pressing down on her pelvic bone when she moved.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 921-923 | Added on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:11:26 PM


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. A different place, different people, what does that matter?

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 1537-1539 | Added on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 11:46:17 PM


and asks Joanna if she finds it strange, to be paid for her hours at work – to exchange, in other words, blocks of her extremely limited time on this earth for the human invention known as money.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 1832-1833 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:10:17 AM


She looked like a piece of religious art. It was so much more painful to look at her than anyone had warned him it would be,

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 2659-2661 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:42:00 PM


For weeks now she has had this feeling, the feeling of moving around inside a protective film, floating like mercury. The outside world touches against her outside skin, but not the other part of herself, inside.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 2688-2690 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:45:34 PM


At times a person will make eye contact with Marianne, a bus conductor or someone looking for change, and she’ll be shocked briefly into the realisation that this is in fact her life, that she is actually visible to other people.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 2804-2806 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:56:52 PM


Could he really do the gruesome things he does to her and believe at the same time that he’s acting out of love? Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence?

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 2806-2807 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:56:59 PM


Outside her breath rises in a fine mist and the snow keeps falling, like a ceaseless repetition of the same infinitesimally small mistake.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 2829-2830 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:59:33 PM


Well, here I am on the floor, he thought. Is life so much worse here than it would be on the bed, or even in a totally different location? No, life is exactly the same.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 2830-2832 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:59:45 PM


Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head. I might as well be lying here, breathing the vile dust of the carpet into my lungs, gradually feeling my right arm go numb under the weight of my body, because it’s essentially the same as every other possible experience.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 3013-3017 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:29:00 PM


Things happened to him, like the crying fits, the panic attacks, but 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 melting everywhere, 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.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 3075-3077 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:35:56 PM


Connell couldn’t think of any reason why these literary events took place, what they contributed to anything, what they meant. They were attended only by people who wanted to be the kind of people who attended them.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 3117-3118 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:40:01 PM


Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 3166-3167 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:43:53 PM


You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 3173-3174 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:44:32 PM


If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 3225-3226 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:51:00 PM


It was as if her life was over. How long had that feeling lasted? Two weeks, or more? Then it went away, and a certain short chapter of her youth had concluded, and she had survived it, it was done.

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Normal People (Sally Rooney)

- Your Highlight on Location 3475-3476 | Added on Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:10:04 PM


There’s something frightening about her, some huge emptiness in the pit of her being.

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