Olivia’s Reviews > Beautiful World, Where Are You > Status Update

“Maybe certain kinds of pain, at certain formative stages in life, just impress themselves into a persons sense of self permanently… And now I just feel like the kind of person whose life partner would fall out of love with them after several years, and I can’t find a way not to be that kind of person anymore.”

Sally Rooney I love you but I am so bored and your characters unlikeable

I did find this part funny though:
“I have a terrible crush on him and get very excited and idiotic when he shows me affection. So of course in the midst of everything, the state of the world being what it is, humanity on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship. What else is there to live for?”