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“It’s difficult to imagine him experiencing feelings of captivating while talking to a beautiful woman. But a person’s outward appearance does not define the boundaries of their internal feelings, Ivan knows. Plain, unappealing people are by no means exempt from the experience of strong passions.”

People Desire Passion

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

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

People Perception

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“There is no such life, slipping free: life is itself the netting, holding people in place, making sense of things. It is not possible to tear away the constraints and simply carry on a senseless existence. People, other people, make it impossible. But without other people, there would be no life at all. Judgement, reproval, disappointment, conflict: these are the means by which people remain connected to one another.”

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“The conversations that follow are gratifying for Connell, often taking unexpected turns and prompting. him to express ideas he had never consciously formulated before. They talk about novels that he's reading, the research she studies, the precise historical moment that they are currently living in, the difficulty of observing such a moment is process.”

People College Normal April 2012 Marianne Connell

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“The conversations that follow are gratifying for Connell, often taking unexpected turns and prompting him to express ideas he had never consciously formulated before. They talk about novels that he's reading, the research she studies, the precise historical moment that they are currently living in, the difficulty of observing such a moment in process.”

People College Normal April 2012 Connell Marianna

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“With other people she seemed so independent and remote, but with Connell she was different, a different person. He was the only one who knew her like that.”

People Normal Marianne 108 Connell

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

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

People Normal Marianne 117 Connell

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.”

People Life Changes

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

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