" She hopes that her brash curiosity appears dismissive. This is one of many dynamic strategies she employs to conceal from Connell what she feels for him. What she feels is not easily expressed anyway. People love all kinds of things: their friends, their parents. Misunderstandings are inevitable.

You’re still crying, are you? he says.

The feeling is coming back now, she says. That’s all. "

― Sally Rooney , At the Clinic