“It's not like this with other people”.
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.
This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.
"So you would, and I writing it down you realize, love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift".
"You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love an be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why".
Looked me in the eye, and said, "Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right"
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