Tania

“I thought it would be the same as everything else in my life – difficult and sad – because I was a difficult and sad person. But that’s not what I am anymore, if I ever was. And life is more changeable than I thought. I mean a life can be miserable for a long time and then later happy. It’s not just one thing or another – it doesn’t get fixed into a groove called ‘personality’ and then run along that way until the end.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I also feel certain it’s better to be deeply loved (which you are) than widely liked (which you probably also are! but I won’t labour the point).”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I felt anything was possible, that there were no doors shut behind me, and that out there somewhere, as yet unknown, there were people who would love and admire me and want to make me happy. Maybe that explains in some way the openness I felt toward the world—maybe without knowing it, I was anticipating my future, I was watching for signs.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Did he finally decide that life was too short to be miserable forty hours a week?”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary