Megan Donnelly

“The wilful ignorance of a people who know in their secret hearts that they’re being lied to and listen anyway because to them the lies are sweet.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Held Her Heart

“Our bodies are full of fluids and soft tissue, we aren't built for space. Our thoughts, the things we know are sturdier in zero gravity, but they originate in gray matter, they change shape, even disappear in the face of disorientation, dehydration, oxygen deprivation. Because ideas require bodies too.”
― Kate Hope Day, In the Quick

“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You