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“Caíra na emboscada recorrente das almas expansivas, que é a de confundirem alheamento e timidez, e de se apaixonarem perdidamente por essa profunda ilusão”
― Inês Pedrosa, A Instrução dos Amantes

“Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones. Did I only worry about this question because as a woman I felt required to put the needs of others before my own? Was “kindness” just another term for submission in the face of conflict? These were the kind of things I wrote about in my diary as a teenager: as a feminist I have the right not to love anyone.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo