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sally rooney must have crawled into my brain while writing this because it’s my thought processes that i had absolutely no idea how to verbalise into words

‘Was it true? He didn’t know enough to know that. At first he thought it must have been true, since he said it, and why would he lie? But then he remembers he does lie sometimes, without planning to or knowing why’

‘Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example’

he gets it.