Cameron Patton

“Do you ever feel like you don’t know what you’re doing with your life?”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“They took her radical politics as a kind of bourgeois self-deprecation, nothing very serious, and talked to her about restaurants or where to stay in Rome.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“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 sat on the campus cricket pitch on my own and smoked two cigarettes, one after another. I had a headache, I hadn't eaten. My body felt used up and worthless to me. I didn't want to put any food or medicine into it anymore.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends