Lily M ❀

“Question: If an Egyptian cannot speak English, who is telling his story?”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“He wasn't too caught up in the words to notice that she was tracing the contours of wings over his shoulder blades.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal