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“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

“the pleasure of being touched by great art’.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Things matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go. I should experiment with drugs.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Se ama para dejar de amar y se deja de amar para empezar a amar a otros, o para quedarse solos, por un rato o para siempre. Ese es el dogma. El único dogma.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better then, as if my privacy extended all around me like a barrier protecting my body.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“You think Eileen doesn't care as much as you do, he said. And you think the same about me, that you care more. Maybe that's why you got to like me in the first place, I don't know. Part of me thinks you just hate yourself. Everything you're doing, moving out here on your own with no card or anything, getting your feelings involved with some randomer you met online, it's like you're trying to make yourself miserable. And maybe you want someone to fuck you over and hurt you. At least that would make sense why you pick me out, because you think I'm the type of person who could do that. Or would want to.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.”
― 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

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“¿Alguna vez quisiste ser otra cosa?
Es que siempre quieres ser otra cosa, Daniela”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“Exagera, sin duda. Nadie puede vivir sin exagerar un poco.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“You underestimate your own power so you don't have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“No quería, en verdad, escribir una novela; simplemente deseaba dar con una zona nebulosa y coherente donde amontonar los recuerdos. Quería meter la memoria en una bolsa y cargar esa bolsa hasta que el peso le estropeara la espalda.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“...le dijo tenés algo mío, te dejé algo mío, ojalá no sea maldito, no sé si puedo dejarte algo que no esté sucio, que no sea oscuro, nuestra parte de noche.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Nuestra parte de noche

“Lo que pasa es real, pero la vida también.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Nuestra parte de noche

“Es una historia de amor, nada demasiado particular: dos personas construyen, con voluntad e inocencia, un mundo paralelo que, naturalmente, muy pronto se viene abajo”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Nuestra parte de noche

“La vida es un enorme álbum donde ir construyendo un pasado instantáneo, de colores ruidosos y definitivos.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“Pero quién no es, de vez en cuando, una mancha en la vida de alguien”
― alejandro zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“No te pueden hacer nada. No son señores y señoras, son ecos. ¿Viste cuando gritás en el garaje de casa y se vuelve a escuchar tu grito? Pero esa ya no es tu voz, la segunda vez. Esto es lo mismo. Alguna vez fueron personas, alguna vez fueron la señora del hotel y el señor del río, pero ahora no. No te pueden hacer nada.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Nuestra parte de noche

“You have fallen into the homoerotic queer girl friendship. It’s all cute at first, and then you catch feelings, and it’s impossible to tell if the joke flirting is actual flirting and if the platonic cuddling is romantic cuddling, and next thing you know, three years have gone by, and you’re obsessed with her, and you haven’t done anything about it because you’re too terrified to fuck up the friendship by guessing it wrong, so instead you send each other horny plausible deniability love letters until you’re both dead.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“There's this feeling August has had everywhere she's ever lived, like she's not really there. Like it's all happening in a dream. She walks down the street, and it's like she's floating a few inches off the pavement, never rooted down. She touches things, a canister of sugar at a coffee shop, or the post of a street sign warm from the afternoon sun, and it feels like she hasn't touched anything at all, like it's all a place she lives in concept. She's just out here, shoes untied, hair a mess, no idea where she's going, scraping her knees and not bleeding.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Being forgotten, she thinks, is a bit like going mad. You begin to wonder what is real, if you are real. After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“And just as she was about to leave the mircophone, she said 'And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don't chip your tooth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue