Normal People #1.9

Marianne: I just... I don't think a relationship is what I want.
Lukas: What do you want?... I really like you.
Marianne: That. I don't‐‐ I don't want that. I don't want you to say that.
Lukas: Really?
Marianne: Really. I want... if anything... the opposite. Of that.

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Normal People #1.8

Connell: I feel like everything's changed since Schols.
Marianne: What do you mean?
Connell: I don't know. Just... all this. It's real. You know, foreign cities are real. Famous artworks. The remnants of the Berlin Wall. Eating ice cream in little Italian piazzas with you... It's money, though, isn't it? The substance that makes the world real.
Marianne: Yeah.
Connell: Mm. It's so corrupt. And sexy.

Marianne: No, honestly, I... I think it's totally fair if you resent me.
Connell: I don't resent you. Why would I? I just don't... I don't think I'm... processing the change all that well.
Marianne: Well... You just need to get it straight in your mind what you think is fair and good in the world. And if you think that people should be able to go to college, and get English degrees, and go to Europe and look at art, then... you shouldn't feel guilty for yourself, because you have every right to.
Connell: Well, that's easy for you to say. You don't feel guilty about anything.

Jamie: No champagne glasses?
Peggy: These are champagne glasses.
Jamie: No, I, uh... I mean the tall ones.
Marianne: You mean flutes. These are coupes. What's the matter?
Jamie: I'm just saying, these aren't for champagne.
Marianne: You're such a philistine.
Jamie: Yeah. You were gonna drink champagne out of gravy boats, and I'm a philistine.

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Normal People #1.6

Marianne: Men can be possessive.
Peggy: You'd really think they'd jump at the idea of multiple partners. Generally, and I am generalizing...
Connell: Mm.
Marianne: Men seem more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than in exercising their own.
Peggy: If I were a man, I would have three girlfriends. At least.
Marianne: I see the appeal, but it also sounds deeply stressful.

Peggy: What about you?
Connell: What about me?
Peggy: Do you not fantasize about having multiple women at once? I thought that was a universal thing for men...
Connell: Right. Well, uh, no. Not really.
Peggy: We could have a threesome, if you want.
Connell: Sorry?
Peggy: The three of us could...
Connell: Right. Uh... Right. Well, um, I haven't... wouldn't... wouldn't really be my cup of tea.

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Normal People 1×5

Connell: Don't think I'm brilliant or anything like that.
Marianne: Mm?
Connell: No, I mean it. It's just... no one else does their reading properly. They literally show up to discuss a book that they haven't even read, and then they just bang on about it, like, with complete confidence. And then... people are fools.
Marianne: And that bothers you?
Connell: I suppose it does a little bit. No, that's not even it. It's... What upsets me is it's... is that I... barely know what to say half the time, like... Like outside of this. Outside of work. Like... Like they don't have to go around and pretend, or... be anything other than themselves. You know? And I feel like I'm... walking around trying on a hundred different versions of myself. It's just not working, or...
Marianne: It doesn't seem like that. From the outside, I mean.

Connell: Apparently everybody knew about us, anyway.
Marianne: Everyone knew what?
Connell: That we were seeing each other.
Marianne: I didn't tell anyone, Connell, I swear to God!
Connell: Ah, fuck, I know. That's not what I mean. I mean... My point is is that even if you had told people, it wouldn't have mattered.
Marianne: Were they horrible about it?
Connell: No. Believe it or not, no one even cared. I feel really guilty about all that stuff I said to you about, uh... how bad it would be if people found out. Like, obviously that was just... That was just what was going on in my head, and... There'd be no reason why anybody would care. I just...

Connell: Marianne, I... I really am sorry.
Marianne: I forgive you.

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Normal People #1.2

Marianne: Don't think "cool" is the first word most people would associate with me.
Connell: What would that be, then?
Marianne: I don't know. Annoying. Obnoxious. Argumentative, definitely. Self-righteous is probably one. Uh, arrogant. Frigid--

Connell: You think I'm shy? Just because I don't give my opinion on everything all the time--
Marianne: You never give an opinion about anything. Ever.
Connell: You just always know what you think. I'm not like that.
Marianne: You must know what you feel, though.
Connell: No. I struggle with that, actually. I might look back on something and... think how I felt at the time, but... when it's happening, never have any idea.
Marianne: Then how do you know what you want?
Connell: I don't. Most of the time I don't have a clue.

Connell: Sure the whole Deb thing's a joke, anyway. Don't know why they still do it.
Marianne: Point at any patriarchal structure in the world and say that.

Connell: All right. I'll put down English and Trinity. So...
Marianne: Really?
Connell: Yeah. Who gives a fuck about a job, anyways?

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