Trina

“and when he looked at her, she seemed to feel herself understood completely, as if everything that had ever happened to her, everything that she had ever done, was accepted quietly into his understanding.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“And if falling in love was discovery, was letting yourself be discovered the equivalent to being loved?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“To love, and for his love to be accepted, yes. It was in fact painful, the relief of all that compression suddenly, to say the words aloud, and hear her saying them, to be loved by her, it was so needed that it actually hurt, and he started to cry.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“To reconstruct her life for him, the story of her life, her personality, to make herself interesting to him, to become in the process interesting even to herself.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo