ariana

“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

“It feels like such a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn't realize how starved id been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Marianne wonders what it would be like to belong here, to walk down the street greeting people and smiling. To feel that life was happening here, in this place, and not somewhere else far away.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“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