Melissa

“Real writers, and also painters, had to keep on looking at the ugly things they had done for good. I hated that everything I did was so ugly, but also that I lacked the courage to confront how ugly it was.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I hated them both, with the intensity of passionate love.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“When I read the Bible I picture you as Jesus, so maybe fainting in a church was a metaphor after all.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I had left myself no one to confine in, no one who would feel any sympathy for what I'd done. And after all that, he was in love with someone else. I screwed my eyes shut and presses my head down hard into the pillow. I thought of the night before, when he told me that he wanted me, how it felt then. Just admit it, I thought. He doesn't love you. That's what hurts.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends