Leah

“Phil struggles to relax. Whenever he looks at art or nature with friends, he feels obliged to express feelings on it even when he has none, and this discrepancy between feelings spoken and feelings felt gives him the sensation of not existing at all.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Only last year, she had looked towards the horizon, and the hill was nowhere to be seen. Now, scrambling down the descent, she realised that she’d been at the summit and not even noticed! She hadn’t even paused for lunch or to admire the view or to congratulate herself for making it to the top.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles