Noora Az.

“I just feel like I left Carricklea thinking I could have a different life, he says. But I hate it here, and now I can never go back there again. I mean, those friendships are gone. Rob is gone, I can never see him again. I can never get that life back.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I love you. I’m sorry. She hated, hated, hated to admit that it was the sort of message a person who knows they’re about to die would send. Coupled with the silence, it was ominous. “I’ll send searchers to the lake.”
― Louise Penny, The Grey Wolf

“He often makes blithe remarks about things he “wishes.” I wish you didn’t have to go, he says when she’s leaving, or: I wish you could stay the night. If he really wished for any of those things, Marianne knows, then they would happen. Connell always gets what he wants, and then feels sorry for himself when what he wants doesn’t make him happy.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She knew that people who were monomaniacal often became maniacs, losing all sense of proportion, all sense of right and wrong, in pursuit of what they convinced themselves was a righteous cause.”
― Louise Penny, The Grey Wolf