Cindy

“All of life knotted into this house for the night, like a necklace knotted at the bottom of a drawer.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Anger doesn't really cover what I feel, though. You get angry because someone almost runs you over in the bike lane. Angry because someone cuts in line at Walmart.
What's the word for when someone drinks so much, they are ruining your best friend's life? Or the word for a man so vengeful about his own past that he wants to destroy your future? What's the word for a woman who was sick for months, but refused to go to the doctor until it was too late? The word for a girl at school whose personal mission is to mess with your head?
Anger 's not the right word.
Rage. That's what this feeling is, eating me up.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“I think about you," Coop said softly.
Caro glared at him. "Not then”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“Like Alice in her moral philosophy, she was caught between two positions. Maybe everyone was, in everything that mattered.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You