Lucy Doyle

“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?”
― Anne Michaels, Held

“You can drive yourself crazy thinking about different things you could have done in the past.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo