“…but that kid is the only person in the world who hasn’t given up on me. And I don’t want to give up on him. […] I won’t fail him again. I promise.”
I know Normal People was written before COVID and all, but Marianne and Connell falling asleep together over Skype really hits different in 2020
They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
NORMAL PEOPLE (2020)
dissolvenza
Well—I have to say I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between ‘good’ and 'bad’ as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can’t exist without the other. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how. But you—wrapped up in judgment, always regretting the past, cursing yourself, blaming yourself, asking 'what if,’ 'what if.’ 'Life is cruel.’ 'I wish I had died instead of.’ Well—think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no—hang on—this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can’t get there any other way?
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
