Emilie

“It’s possible to feel so grateful that you can’t get to sleep at night.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I closed my eyes. Things and people moved around me, taking positions in obscure hierarchies, participating in systems I didn't know about and never would. A complex network of objects and concepts. You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“A certain peace had come to me and I wondered if it was God’s doing after all. Not that God existed in any material way but as a shared cultural practice so widespread that it came to seem materially real, like language or gender.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“The world was like a crumpled ball of newspaper to me, something to kick around.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends