Conversations with Friends

by Sally Rooney

Things matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go.

He was the first person I had met since Bobbi who made me enjoy conversation, in the same irrational and sensuous way I

enjoyed coffee or loud music.

Did I only worry about this question because as a woman I felt required to put the needs of others before my own?

as a feminist I have the right not to love anyone.

It’s possible to feel so grateful that you can’t get to sleep at night.

You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.