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61 " and the intensity of the privacy between them is severe, pressing in on him with an almost physical pressure on his face and body "
― Sally Rooney , Normal People
62 " She would have lain on the ground and let him walk over her body if he wanted, he knew that "
― Sally Rooney , Short Stories (by Sally Rooney)
63 " Aren't we unfortunate babies to be born when the world ended? After that there was no chance for the planet, and no chance for us. "
― Sally Rooney , Beautiful World, Where Are You
64 " Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably this was how the industry made money. "
65 " Dry upturned sycamore leaves scuttling like claws along the South Circular Road. The artificial buttered taste of popcorn in the cinema. Pale-yellow sky in the evening, Thomas Street draped in mist. "
66 " When I read the Bible I picture you as Jesus, so maybe fainting in a church was a metaphor after all. "
― Sally Rooney , Conversations with Friends
67 " 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 "
68 " I don’t need to make people feel comfortable. In the end, it was me. It may not mean anything to anyone else, but it doesn’t have to – that’s the point. I was number one. Like Fast Eddie, I’m the best there is. And even if you beat me, I’m still the best. "
― Sally Rooney , Even If You Beat Me
69 " his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it "
70 " Maybe I want to be treated badly, she says. I don't know. Sometimes I think I deserve bad things because I'm a bad person. "
71 " He tells her bad things about herself. It's hard to know whether Marianne likes to hear those things; shes desires to hear them, but she's conscious by now of being able to desire in some sense what she does not want. The quality of gratification is thin and hard, arriving too quickly and then leaving her sick and shivery. "
72 " I feel so frightened of being hurt — not of the suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of suffering, the indignity of being open to it. "
73 " 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. "
74 " It's easy for them to have opinions, and to express them with confidence. They don't worry about appearing ignorant or conceited. "
75 " Connell initially felt a sense of crushing inferiority to his fellow students, as if her had upgraded himself accidentally to an intellectual level far above his own, where he had to strain to make sense of the most basic premises. "
76 " … Connell fa spesso commenti irriflessivi a proposito di quello che vorrebbe. Vorrei che non te ne dovessi andare, dice quando lei si congeda, o vorrei che potessi restare a dormire. Se davvero volesse una di queste cose, Marianne ne è consapevole, allora succederebbero… "
77 " He brought her goodness like a gift ad now it belongs to her. "
78 " 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. "
79 " I' m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me. "
80 " 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. "