Cameron Patton

“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

“You’re twenty-one, said Melissa. You should be disastrously unhappy.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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