morgan coley

“If Niall could see Marianne, he would say: don’t tell me. You like her. It’s true she is Connell’s type, maybe even the originary model of the type: elegant, bored-looking, with an impression of perfect self-assurance. And he’s attracted to her, he can admit that. After these months away from home, life seems much larger, and his personal dramas less significant. He’s not the same anxious, repressed person he was in school, when his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The truth is, no man is my savior, my Jesus, my Buddha, or my mama. He is just a man.”
― Brandy Engler, The Men on My Couch: True Stories of Sex, Love and Psychotherapy

“And wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury