419 Quotes by Sally Rooney

They were attended only by the people who wanted to be the kind of people who attend them.

They were attended only by people who wanted to be the kind of people who attended them.

Things happened to him, like the crying fits, the panic attacks, but they seemed to descend on him from outside, rather than emanating from somewhere inside himself. Internally he felt nothing. He was like a freezer item that had thawed too quickly on the outside and was melting everywhere while the inside was still frozen solid.

You know I love you. He didn't say anything else. She said she loved him too and he nodded and continued driving as if nothing at all had happened, which in a way it hadn't.

She shrugs. She knows a confrontation is coming now, and she can do nothing to stop it. It's moving towards her already from every direction, and there's no special move she can make, no evasive gesture, that can help her escape it.

Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.

People look out for each other, and being Marianne’s best friend and suspected sexual partner has elevated Connell to the status of rich-adjacent

She tries to pronounce this in a way that communicates several things: apology, painful embarrassment, some additional feigned embarrassment that serves to ironise and dilute the painful kind, a sense that she knows she will be forgiven or is already, a desire not to ‘make a big deal’.

Marianne had a wildness that got into him for a while and made him feel that he was like her, that they had the same unnameable spirtiual injury, and that neither of them could ever fit inot the world.