Normal People Bot

A bot that posts quotes from Normal People by Sally Rooney

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I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people.

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"Somehow he was expressing more emotion than at any time in his life before, while simultaneously feeling less, feeling nothing."

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"Does she have to be her old desperate self around him always?"

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"He touches his lips to her skin and she feels holy, like a shrine."

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She experiences a depression so deep it is tranquillising.

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"She experiences a depression so deep it is tranquillising."

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But it was hard to dismiss something she had admittedly been hearing all her life from various sources: that she was mentally unwell and needed help.

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Well, I don’t feel lovable. I think I have an unlovable sort of… I have a coldness about me, I’m difficult to like.

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Even in a memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening.

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Marianne, he said, I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.

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I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people.

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And feeling a strange sense of nostalgia for a moment that was already in the process of happening.