paul mescal as connell waldron in normal people (2020)

I don't find it obvious what you want.

daisy edgar-jones as marianne sheridan in normal people (2020)

I would lie down here, and you could do anything you wanted to me.

I guess we just misunderstood each other.

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

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.

You just always know what you think. I'm not like that.

"I don’t know. I don’t feel anything. I find myself crying or having a panic attack, so presumably I do feel. It’s just… It just doesn’t connect.”
“I understand.”
“I know you do.”

She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.

She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again.

Multiple times he has tried writing his thoughts about Marianne down on paper in an effort to make sense of them. He's moved by a desire to describe in words exactly how she looks and speaks.

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

They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.