Anna

“He’s amused himself, getting wrapped up in the drama of novels like that. It feels intellectually unserious to concern himself with fictional people marrying one another. But there it is: literature moves him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognise him from touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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

“Could he really do the gruesome things he does to her and believe at the same time that he’s acting out of love? Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence?”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People