“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
―
Sally Rooney,
Normal People
“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“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. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.” ― Sally Rooney , Normal People
“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.” ― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Her eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them. Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Marianne, he said, I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“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. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.” ― Sally Rooney , Normal People
“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.” ― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Her eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them. Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“Marianne, he said, I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
