Two Stories Quotes

“A pain in your throat may get worse when you swallow, may be almost unbearably painful when you swallow, but that doesn’t mean that the pain is gone when you’re not swallowing.”
― Sally Rooney, Two Stories

“What made you think I was nice?

He doesn’t think he can answer this question. In truth he doesn’t think of her as particularly nice. He just thinks of niceness as a general standard to which everyone accepts they can be held.”
― Sally Rooney, Two Stories

“He kissed me. I felt feverish and stupid, like a thirsty person with too much water suddenly pouring into their mouth.”
― Sally Rooney, Two Stories

“We used to watch films together like that. And he would touch my hair in that exact way, distractedly. I found his distraction comforting. In a way i wanted to live inside it, as if it was a place of it's own, where he had never noticed I had entered.”
― Sally Rooney, Two Stories

“Time skimmed past us like an ice skater.”
― Sally Rooney, Two Stories