Maria

“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“La felicità, a volte, è solo constatare que nulla è mutato.”
― Ilaria Tuti, Fiore di roccia

“It is a comfort to know  That all I have to do is nothing In the moments I am afraid  Of invisible things”
― Madisen Kuhn, Bad At Existing: Poems