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

“Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here. That the hunted body we move in has not yet been annihilated, craped out. To see yourself still yourself is a refuge men who have not been denied cannot know.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo.
"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“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