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‘Imăm Al-Ghazali said "Live as long as
you want, but you must die; love whatever you want, but you will become separated from it; and do what you want, but you will be repaid for it!" ‘

‘Jika kita tak pernah dicintai, bagaimana mahu kita belajar mencintai?’

‘…kita sebenarnya tidak mahu hilang, cuma mahu ditemui oleh seseorang.’

Getting used to this kind of style is hard.

‘Empty pizza boxes discarded by the opposite wall, disintegrating. Let me walk you home. She's knotting her scarf. Thank you. She takes his arm. Her fine small hand almost weightless. Fingers in the creases of his jacket. Were you seeing Naomi earlier? How is she? Good. Yeah. Walking up towards Dame Street again.‘

My first book of Rooney’s. 3rd attempt at reading. Trying to get pass the 100th page & see if this is a DNF or not.

‘"I figure I'll look less lonely with a book in my hand."
"So you're the type that cares what other people think."
"That's how you end up when you go around alone. People think people who go around alone are weird."’

‘Nobody would tell a woman in her thirties how she was supposed to make friends from scratch, and there were no manuals that she knew of.’

‘People want to be good. Deep down. Kind. The problem, of course, is that it isn't always possible to be kind to idiots, because they're idiots.‘

‘…it’s pride that stops a person from asking for help.’

‘Older men rarely know what to say to younger men to let them know that they care. It's so hard to find the words when all you really want to say is: 'I can see you're hurting.'’

Just a few pages more but took some flu medicine & now I’m sleepy