Daniela

“How often in life he has found himself a frustrated observer of apparently impenetrable systems, watching other people participate effortlessly in structures he can find no way to enter or even understand. So often that it’s practically baseline, just normal existence for him. And this is not only due to the irrational nature of other people, and the consequent irrationality of the rules and processes they devise; it’s due to Ivan himself, his fundamental unsuitedness to life. He knows this. He feels himself to have been formed, somehow, with something other than life in mind.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“It wasn't until years later that I saw her words for what they really meant. If people want to love you, they do, no matter how flawed you are. But if they aren't inclined to love you, nothing you say or do, no amount of your own goodness, can make them change their mind.”
― Lidija Hilje, Slanting Towards the Sea

“The miracle of existing completely together in this way for even one moment on God’s earth, she thinks. If never again in her life another, only to be here now, with him.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Some days, of course, you’re out there digging ditches. Some days, it’s just a Tuesday, you know? But then there are the big moments. And you have to save them in your heart, crystallize them, and put them in a glass jar.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe