Brittany

“Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong against the weak, and she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could help only a few people.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I tried to smile and shake my head at the right times, but I was always a moment behind them. They laughed because something was funny; I laughed because they had.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Literary people in college see books primarily as a way of appearing cultured.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I felt like I might end up anywhere, and imagining all the future I might have, all the Azas I might become, was a glorious and welcome vacation from living with the me I currently was.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down