Emma’s Reviews > Beautiful World, Where Are You > Status Update

“I wouldn’t go so far as to say you work hard, because your job’s a laugh compared to mine… And I just think, for all the fuss they make over you, none of them actually care about you one bit. I don’t know if anyone does.” … “You must really hate me, she said coolly. No, I don’t, he replied. But I don’t love you either.”

Felix I was rooting for you, and then you do this.

Eileen is starting to really irritate me. Like I’m not surprised her thing with Simon blew up in her face.
Favourite parts are definitely Alice and Eileen’s emails to each other.
“Because in my deepest essence I am just an artefact of our culture, just a little bubble winking at the brim of our civilisation.”

“Is it just that the pain I feel right now is so intense that it transcends my ability to reconstruct the pain I felt at the time? Presumably, remembered suffering never feels as bad as present suffering, even if it was really a lot worse - we can’t remember how much worse it was because remembering is weaker than experiencing.”

Gosh it’s good to be back reading Sally Rooney. Needed a break from the mammoth Stephen King creation of IT.