Alice

“I guess everyone is a mystery in a way, she says. I mean, you can never really know another person, and so on.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“How strange to feel herself so completely under the control of another person, but also how ordinary. No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not. She knows he loves her, she doesn’t wonder about that anymore.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It is one of the secrets in that change of mental poise which has been fitly named conversion, that to many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a peculiar influence, subduing them into receptiveness. GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He tells her that she’s beautiful. She has never heard that before, though she has sometimes privately suspected it of herself, but it feels different to hear it from another person.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People