Luísa

“She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men. And she had long known that assholes protect their own. They are faithful to no one but surprisingly protective of each other.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“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

“I asked the psychologist, a woman with hair on her lip and a monobrow, what emotional meant. She answered that it had to do with your soul, but I was too young to understand. Still I guessed that a soul was like a white sheet inside our bodies and when it got stained it made people stupid, like Betina and a little like me.”
― Aurora Venturini, Cousins