Simon Risberg

“You didn’t ask, she says. You said, I’m going out to the smoking area, and then you walked away. No, I said do you want to come out to the smoking area, and you shook your head. Maybe I didn’t hear you right.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I kind of thought maybe you would let me stay here or something. I don’t really know what happened with us in the end. She feels a sharp pain in her chest and her hand flies to her throat, clutching at nothing. You told me you wanted us to see other people, she says. I had no idea you wanted to stay here. I thought you were breaking up with me. He rubs his palm flat against his mouth for a second, and then breathes out.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She once told me about being arrested by the Peacekeepers back home, how frightened she was at first. Then she remembered she’d read that sometimes the only thing you can control is your attitude to a situation.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“At that moment he thought: just as their relationship in school had been on his terms, their relationship now was on hers. But she’s more generous, he thought. She’s a better person.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People