Maria

“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

“I said I was always happy in the morning, not always in the afternoon and
never after sunset, for after sunset the house was haunted, some places are.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.”
― Nora Ephron Heartburn