Lauryn

“It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“When something good happens to you at that age, you can’t settle with the notion that it’s a one-off. You want it to be the beginning of a tradition. That’s how I felt about that night: I wanted it already to be a memory, a foundational one, a first evening of many similar evenings. I wanted future nostalgia, a rear-view, years-old fondness for something that had literally just happened.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident