Nicholas

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

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