Maddy

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“In life there are wounds that, like leprosy, silently scrape at and consume the soul, in solitude—”
― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver