Bella (bookcabinets)

“Making new friends as an adult is as nerve-racking as asking someone on a date.”
― Rachel Winters, Would Like to Meet

“The truth is, we only become secure in our convictions by allowing them to be challenged. Confident people don’t get riled by opinions different from their own, nor do they spew bile online by way of refutation. Secure people don’t decide others are irredeemably stupid or malicious without knowing who they are as individuals.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

“Nobody when they're rejected believes it's really for extraneous reasons. And it almost never is for extraneous reasons, because mutual attraction — which even makes sense from an evolutionary perspective — is simply the strangest reason to do anything, overriding all the contrary principles and making them fall away into nothing.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“And yet, accepting the premise, allowing life to mean nothing for a moment, doesn’t it simply feel good”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo