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Sally Rooney
“Personally I have to exercise a lot of agency in reading, and understanding what I read, and bearing it all in mind for long enough to make sense of the book as I go along. In no sense does it feel like a passive process by which beauty is transmitted to me without my involvement; it feels like an active effort, which an experience of beauty is the constructed result. But, I think more importantly, great novels engage my sympathies and make me desire things.”
Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sylvia Plath
“There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Vladimir Nabokov
“It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

Sally Rooney
“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

Heather O'Neill
“Many of them, like him, would never grow old enough to understand that you only go from one hardship to another. And that the best we can hope from life is that it is a wonderful depression.”
Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel

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