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Conversations with Friends

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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read in December 2023

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Breena said: " This is my fifth read of Conversations with Friends, and it always gets better. I find so much solace in Frances, and Rooney’s ability to personify a persons struggles with mental health never ceases to amaze me. Until we meet again, Frances. "

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Breena’s Quotes

“In the classical music field, it’s still more permissible for women to be mediocre than it is for them to be fat.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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“No woman escapes pregnancy unscathed. No matter how wonderful they are, offspring gorge on our perfect bodies and alter them forever. I had a husband and children. Did he look at me after I got pregnant? Of course not. He left me disfigured and impoverished. If I hadn’t met Victor then, I would have killed myself.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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“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

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“I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide which is worse, coming up against the limitations of their souls or the limitations of my love.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

tags: grief, loss, love, parents

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“My ego had always been an issue. I knew that intellectual attainment was morally neutral at best, but when bad things happened to me I made myself feel better by thinking about how smart I was.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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