Brian H

“She felt foolish for not realizing what he had been thinking about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“On the phone Joanna frequently describes her office, the various characters who work there, the dramas that erupt between them, and it's as if she's a citizen of a country Marianne has never visited, the country of paid employment.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I have seen very little of life, and I really sometimes don't know how to say things”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double

“Heterosexual men and women are not well-matched. There was a factory fault when God, whoever she is, made them with the hopes of compatibility”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material