Libby

“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”
― Alice James, Alice James, her brothers--her journal

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Original sin is my only refuge, I was born bad and I never have recovered”
― Alice James

“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People