Ella

“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“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.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“There is a distance that cannot be measured in kilometers or even in light years; it's the distance born from change.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci