Normal People - Blog Posts

Hahaha LoL! Honestly though, I believe everyone has their own brand of weird. If everyone is weird, that means that weird is normal. Which makes normal weird. It’s like a sort of feedback loop. Whether it’s a metaphorical loop or not, others can decide I guess.

Ohhhhhhhhh i have some RAGE against Normal People by Sally Rooney. Can I understand, intellectually, that there are legitimate reasons to like this book? Yes. Do I emotionally agree with any of them? ABSOLUTELY NOT. First off this book was impossible to read easily because of the lack of punctuation, what was up with that!! Beyond that the relationship between the two main characters was just bad and really imbalanced, and also I was not interested at all. Also the weak ass Marxist commentary??? Girl didn't even commit 🤣 And to top it all off, I read this for a bookclub for a college that I did all the precollege stuff for, and they DIDN'T EVEN LET ME IN!!!!!! Anyways fuck this book so much, enjoy my rant :)

I accept and appreciate your offering.

It's bullshit that they didn't let you in. Book clubs are supposed to bring people together, but some of them get so snobby.

DAISY EDGAR-JONES Stylist Magazine UK, 2022

OMDDD

my friend asked if we can watch this show called normal people, and i’d read on a blog once that daisy could be a fan cast for Eddie’s mom and i realised Paul looks like Eddie’s dad too. so get ready for them to be his parents whenever i write for Eddie.

Of lost chances, forbidden love and remorse.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Films in frame: Past lives, La la land, Fleabag, Normal People, In the mood for love, Atonement, Potrait of a lady on fire, Maurice, Blue Valentine, Her

I found 'Normal People' thankyou for that universe. Now I don't feel anything 😥💙

Note to self: stop watching Paul Mescal movies, you know that bitch is only in sad movies that will wreck you.

hate to break it to u guys, but the cookie recipe was a flop 😔

i’m determined to find a GOOD cinnamon swirl recipe

you’re the loss of my life

t h o u g h t s

It's been a few minutes,

My head on your shoulder, your arm around me

Neither of us utters a word.

What are you thinking?

You ask, breaking the silence.

I'm thinking,

About the day we finally accepted how we felt,

And then the world tilted, the hourglass turned,

How every day we're slipping away, gradually

One sand grain at a time.

I'm thinking,

How unfortunate it is that our fate's already written

That we were to be like parallel lines

Destined to be together

But not with each other.

I'm thinking,

How long are we going to take it, one day at a time?

One call, one heart emoji, one I miss you at a time.

Like a recovering addict,

Each day takes us twelve steps away from each other.

I'm thinking,

How the time we are together is snowglobe moments.

How we are confined to only a moment in time.

While the world around us moves on and on.

And we relive one perfect yet fragile moment.

I'm thinking,

How we belong to each other today,

For now.

How wonderful it'll be if the world ends today.

While you are mine and I'm yours.

So I don't have to see tomorrow.

When the hourglass is finally empty

When either of the parallel lines ends.

When we are so apart that we stand out of sight

When the snow globe falls to the floor, waking us up.

Instead,

I try to come back to that second,

To your voice, eyes, and presence,

Instead, I say,

I'm thinking about getting ice cream.

Doesn't a word look weird when we stare at it long enough? Doesn't the alphabet look slightly meaningless when we write it over and over again? Here's one: CLING C-LING, C-L-ING, C-L-I-NG, C-L-I-N-G. Does this make sense? It doesn't sound like a word the more you say it. It doesn't look like a word the more you write it. The curves and strokes, dots and dash!

Isn't it how the name of the people you love changes? At some point, it stops being a name, a word that belongs to them. It becomes a feeling that belongs to you. It stops sounding like a word or a random string of letters. It becomes a string of feelings you cling to when life falls apart. Their name on your phone screen stops looking like a word. Every notification and phone call conjures an image of them looking at you and smiling before you can even look at it twice. That particular string of curves and strokes, dots and dash Once belonged to them and is now beloved by you Which you randomly write in the air because it gives you comfort.

Sometimes we take names for granted without realizing the power it holds. When all it takes is that one word to appear on your screen to get you through another tiring day.

Back home, Connell’s shyness never seemed like much of an obstacle to his social life, because everyone knew who he was already, and there was never any need to introduce himself or create impressions about his personality. If anything, his personality seemed like something external to himself, managed by the opinions of others, rather than anything he individually did or produced. Now he has a sense of invisibility, nothingness, with no reputation to recommend him to anyone.

- Normal people by Sally Rooney

either way by odie leigh // jeff buckley // normal people by sally rooney // unknown, possibly natalie diaz // eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004) // old friend by mitski // halloween by phoebe bridgers // unknown // unknown

Everything in this series was made just for me

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God, please, give me what they have

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Normal people by Sally Rooney

“All these years they´ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions.”

I don´t really have an opinion on this novel, only emotions, which probably is the best compliment you can give a writer, even if the emotions aren’t entirely pleasant ones. But then, pleasantries are not what books are for. Normal people is an incredibly simplistic book, and I mean that in the best way possible. The language is light and easy, because it doesn’t need to be anything else to fit the story and its characters.

Marianne and Connell grow up in the same small town in the Irish countryside. Connell is, despite his shyness, quite popular and well-liked, while Marianne´s opinionated personality and her overall weirdness makes her an outsider for her classmates. Because Connell´s mother works for Marianne´s rich family, they get to know each other outside of school and start sleeping with each other, only to realise how much they like each other and how close they have grown. This ends before they go off to college, but there, they meet again. Now, Marianne has a big group of friends and is highly admired, whereas Connel struggles with fitting in at Trinity, especially because of his social status. Still, he and Marianne find their way back to each other and stay close over the next years, sometimes romantically involved with each other, sometimes as each other´s friends or confidantes.

“It´s not like this with other people.”

With them growing and growing up, the relationship is constantly shifting. I wouldn’t call this novel a love story. It is more that these two people have an understanding about how they are respectively, and who they are to each other. It is a story about life and about growth and things that happen to us and things we do to ourselves and to others. It is, needless to say, a wonderful story.

„He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her.”

I’m her

normal people shuffle.

please use credit if you use :)

I was in Periplus Setiabudi One Central Jakarta to meet a friend of mine. A funny story behind this meeting is that we were bonding over mutual interest in the novel The Secret History. She and I have the same favorite character, which obviously is Henry Marchbanks Winter. That was our second meeting, so it wasn't that awkward anymore.

I am also thankful that I was able to bring two of my book wishlists: Any Ozamu Dazai's book and Normal People by Sally Rooney. Honestly, I wasn't planning to bring The Setting Sun home because I intended to buy the other one, No Longer Human. Due to the availability of No Longer Human's old cover book, I chose to bring The Setting Sun instead. The publisher of Osamu Dazai books, which version I bought, has a distinctive book cover style that matches each other. These beautiful covers surely would be my priority wishlist for the next year.

Due to many new activities I've had these past 2 months, I am trying my best now to start reading again and stacking that habit once again so I won't easily fall into a reading slump. I have not even been able to finish my current read since November. Not because the book is boring, but it was just me who gets tired easily to even be done with 10 pages minimum.

But, all good now, at least I'm trying and actually do read, although it's quite hard to beat my sleepiness.

I think I love you.

I think I Iove you too much to let you be on your own when I don't trust you. But how do I keep this love alive if I don't trust you?

I think I hate me because I love you.

Am I crazy to love you?

Do you even want to be loved the way I love you?

Reading normal people rn and after three quarters of the book my frustration is so real, seeing Marianne's love interests so fucked up and Connell's misinterpretation of the situations is making me sick to the core. I still love being suffocated though 🫶

Normal People

vs

Romantic Poets

Normal People: "You're a great friend."

Romantic Poets: "Friend, in the vast expanse of our platonic love, you are the tranquil stream that flows through the forest of our companionship, nourishing the roots of our bond with the purity of its waters, sustaining us through the seasons of life's journey."

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in NORMAL PEOPLE (2020), 1x06 "Episode 6", directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

Marianne and Connell + kisses (part. one).

this week in the book community~

•queer show with little flying leaves renewed

•dysfunctional family with superpowers 3 trailer

•musician that's been acting as therapist gets doctorate

•you can throw a party full of everyone you know, and not invite your family ’cause they never showed you love

•white people having extramarital affairs and being communists

•"fans will have complicated feelings about chain of thorns ending"

Part 3 of my Valentine's post😭

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3

this scene...this scene

ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - Domestic Scenes [5/5]

He’s me I’m him

I am Marianne and Connell's love child, i have the worst of both of them.

(from "normal people")

who don't know how to close eyes

and to play dumb in front of injustice,

who don't talk about greed, but justice,

who disclose the unreasonable matters

that have no bearing on their own comfort,

who are not useful to themselves, above all,

who recoginize the slightest hint of their stupidity,

they never forgive those at all.