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“Time consists of physics, money is just a social construct.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“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. Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably this was how the industry made money. Literature, in the way it appeared at these public readings, had no potential as a form of resistance to anything.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Ás vegadas, por facer festa, o señor Merlin saía á eira, e nunha copa de cristal chea de auga verquía dúas ou tres gotas do licor que il chamaba "clos países", e sorrindo, con aquela aberta sorrisa que lle enchía a franca faciana como enche o sol a mañán, preguntábanos de qué coor queríamos velo mundo, e sempre que a min me tocaba responder, eu decía que de azul, i entón don Merlin botaba a iauga, ao áer, e por un segundo o mundo todo, Esmelle todo arredor, as brancas torres de Belvís, as pombas i o can Ney, o roxo pelo de Manoeliña, a branca barba de mi amo, o cabalo tordo, as bidueiras de Quintás i o toxo da coroa do Castro, todo era unha longa nuben azul que pouco a pouco se esvaía.”
― Álvaro Cunqueiro, Merlín e familia

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