Cameron Patton

“I explained that I wanted to destroy capitalism and that I considered masculinity personally oppressive. Nick told me he was 'basically' a Marxist, and he didn't want me to judge him for owning a house. It's this or paying rent forever, he said. But I acknowledge it's troubling.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“... even in the depths of my indignity I craved something worse.”
― 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

“Even though I had known Nick didn’t love me, I had continued to let him have sex with me whenever he wanted, out of desperation and a naive hope that he didn’t understand what he was inflicting on me. Now even that hope was gone. He knew that I loved him, that he was exploiting my tender feelings for him, and he didn’t care. There was nothing to be done. On the bus home I chewed the inside of my cheek and stared out the black window until I tasted blood.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends