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“I’m bettering myself, I thought. I’m going to become so smart that no one will understand me.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones. Did I only worry about this question because as a woman I felt required to put the needs of others before my own? Was “kindness” just another term for submission in the face of conflict? These were the kind of things I wrote about in my diary as a teenager: as a feminist I have the right not to love anyone.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Everyone’s always going through something, aren’t they? That’s life, basically. It’s just more and more things to go through.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“People are all we've got.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge