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“I don't know why I can't make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She felt she would do anything to make him like her, to make him say out loud that he liked her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Cecilia had released an airborne virus which the other girls, even in coming to save her, had contracted.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in a space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us through we couldn't fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides