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“She felt happy to be surrounded by people she liked, who liked her. She knew if she wanted to speak, everyone would probably turn and listen out of sincere interest, and that made her happy too, although she had nothing at all to say.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I’m the one who suggests the public marriage proposal. Peeta agrees to do it but then disappears to his room for a long time. Haymitch tells me to leave him alone. “I thought he wanted it, anyway,” I say. “Not like this,” Haymitch says. “He wanted it to be real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“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

“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