Ashlyn

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Her laugh was the sound of a slot-machine jackpot, a soda can cracking open, fairground music in the distance, a Corvette engine coming to life, a thousand hands applauding at once. It was one of those truly beautiful sounds.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He wished he loved her a little more or hated her a little less, something to tip the scale. Instead, he lived in the fraught balance between the two, each increasing the intensity of the other....”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein