Normal People Bot

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people.

"Somehow he was expressing more emotion than at any time in his life before, while simultaneously feeling less, feeling nothing."

"Does she have to be her old desperate self around him always?"

"He touches his lips to her skin and she feels holy, like a shrine."

She experiences a depression so deep it is tranquillising.

"She experiences a depression so deep it is tranquillising."

But it was hard to dismiss something she had admittedly been hearing all her life from various sources: that she was mentally unwell and needed help.

Well, I don’t feel lovable. I think I have an unlovable sort of… I have a coldness about me, I’m difficult to like.

Even in a memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening.

Marianne, he said, I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people.

And feeling a strange sense of nostalgia for a moment that was already in the process of happening.