Melissa

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It’s gross. Why are so many men so gross but still we say that they are heroes? And if we try to even talk about it with these men, they get incredibly upset and defensive and call us cruel or insecure, but really, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t do the thing but then not want to ever discuss it. If you want to hide it, maybe it’s not just because “it is private” but because you know, you really do know, that it is gross.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“I believe that wildness belongs in people.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,” he told me reproachfully.”
― Tana French, In the Woods