Claire

“Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I think a lot of what we learn about others isn’t what they tell us. It’s what we observe. People can tell us anything they want.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things