Kitty

“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“A few days into January, work started again. Madison from Texas greeted me by launching into a description of her new-year new-me fitness regimen. "I'm going to be me, but worse," I said.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“I was like men who openly declare other men irresistibly handsome the better to conceal that they’re aching to embrace them”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“But her explanation will only sound like lies. Nobody when they’re rejected believes it’s really for extraneous reasons. And it almost never is for extraneous reasons because mutual attraction - which makes sense from the evolutionary perspective - is simply the strongest reason to do anything, overriding all the contrary principles and making them fall away to nothing.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo