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“Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around me, as if death was more of a miracle than life was.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“It was in my nature to absorb large volumes of information during times of distress, like I could master the distress through intellectual dominance.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“Marianne takes significant personal pleasure in having her pain validated by professionals.”
― Sally Rooney, At the Clinic

“Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir