amirah

“Everyday experience. The relationship of memory and feeling.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“He didn’t know the first thing about me, Sylvia. We were allergic to each other. Never had a real conversation in our lives.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“But then they say one adjusts. The old life of pleasure gone and never returning: accept, or else delude yourself, all the same in the end. The will to live so much stronger than anyone imagines. Like a kind of death, what happened. A kind of death you survive out of politeness, respect for others, out of selfless love.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“For this and other reasons, Ivan considers the body a fundamentally primitive object, a vestige of evolutionary processes superseded by the development of the brain.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo