Kitty

“Whatever Just do something productive. You haven't done your last two English assignments and you have one due Friday. I told you next time it's detention."
"Wow, gossiping about me withe the English teacher. I would have thought you were above that kind of thing."
Ms. Devlin turned red, ready to explode. "I am your English teacher, you ninny."
"Oh I thought you looked familiar.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Remembering something embarrassing you did years ago and abruptly you think: I want to kill myself. Doesn’t mean he wants to really, or even if he does, not as if he would do it. Just to think or not even think but to overhear the words inside his own head. Strange relief like a catch released. I wish. Deepest and most final of desires.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“convincingly now he laughs aloud at the punchline of a joke he has not heard . Classic he says.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Don't spit in my hair!"
"Don't get hair in my spit. That's my good saliva.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem