419 Quotes by Sally Rooney

The connection is not obvious, at least to me, since markets preserve nothing, but ingest all aspects of an existing social landscape and excrete them, shorn of meaning and memory, as transactions. What could be ‘conservative’ about such a process?

Committee members of college clubs, who are dressed up in black tie very frequently, and who inexplicably believe that the internal workings of student societies are interesting to normal people.

You could have a different boyfriend, you know, he says. I mean, guys are constantly falling in love with you, from what I hear. Stop that. You’re the kind of person, people either love you or hate you.

She’s missing some primal instinct, self-defense or self-preservation, which makes other human being comprehensible.

Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.

You underestimate your own power so you don’t have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people.

My ego had always been an issue. I knew that intellectual attainment was morally neutral at best, but when bad things happened to me I made myself feel better by thinking about how smart I was.

And hopefully I have changed, you know, as a person. But honestly, if I have, it’s because of you.