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

“I don’t know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boyfriend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People