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“All of that. And their phone calls, the messages they wrote to one another, their jealousies, the years of looks, suppressed smiles, their dictionary of little touches. All the stories they had told about each other, about themselves. This much was in their eyes and passed between them.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language’s assertive nature by “add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She wanted to be at home, crowded in with her beloved Parisian-themed knickknacks—all her I LOVE PARIS plaques, miniature Eiffel Towers. All of her passwords and e-mail addresses were variants on Paris, a city she would never see.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts