sasha

“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“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

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six