419 Quotes by Sally Rooney

I need to be fun and likeable, I thought. A fun person would send a thank-you email.

Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.

Marianne replaces the yogurt pot in the freezer now and asks Joanna if she finds it strange, to be paid for her hours at work - to exchange, in other words, blocks of her extremely limited time on this earth for the human invention known as money.

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.

Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones.

The outside world touches against her outside skin, but not the other part of herself, inside.

I' m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.

It's like something he assumed was just a painted backdrop all his life has revealed itself to be real: foreign cities are real, and famous artworks, and underground railway systems, and remnants of the Berlin Wall. That's money, the substance that makes the world real. There's something so corrupt and sexy about it.

At the same time I was exhilarated by the seriousness of my pain, like it might change my life in an unforeseen way.