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At the Clinic QUOTES

1 " Marianne takes significant personal pleasure in having her pain validated by professionals. "

― Sally Rooney , At the Clinic

2 " He’s doing it partly out of guilt. A week previously Marianne gave him head in his apartment and complained afterwards that her jaw hurt, and he was like, do you have to complain about everything all the time? "

― Sally Rooney , At the Clinic

3 " 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

4 " As a twenty-three-year-old Marianne is occasionally subject to the same dismal anxieties that characterised her adolescent life. Throughout school she was contemptuous of others, but simultaneously seized by a fear of other people’s contempt. "

― Sally Rooney , At the Clinic