Best Sally Rooney Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Conversations with Friends

“Antagligen känns minnet av lidande aldrig lika illa som lidandet i stunden, även om det faktiskt var mycket värre- vi kan inte minnas hue mycket värre det var, eftersom minnet är svagare än upplevelsen.”

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Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You

Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Ibland är det svårt att förstå själva poängen när det saker som jag tror är meningsfulla visar sig vara betydelselösa, och de människor som borde älska mig inte gör det.”

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Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You

Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You

“There is more to life than great chess. Okay, great chess is still a part of life, and it can be a very big part, very intense, satisfying, and pleasant to dwell on in the mind's eye: but nonetheless, life contains many things. Life itself, he thinks, every moment of life, is as precious and beautiful as any game of chess ever played, if only you know how to live.”

Life Fiction Living Chess Literary Fiction Sally Rooney

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful”

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Book:Conversations with Friends

Source: Conversations with Friends

“If Niall could see Marianne, he would say: don’t tell me. You like her. It’s true she is Connell’s type, maybe even the originary model of the type: elegant, bored-looking, with an impression of perfect self-assurance. And he’s attracted to her, he can admit that. After these months away from home, life seems much larger, and his personal dramas less significant. He’s not the same anxious, repressed person he was in school, when his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it.”

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Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“Det var svårt att avgöra om han njöt av att hon var besvärad eller om han faktiskt tyckte synd om henne.”

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Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You

Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Still, Connell went home that night and read over some notes he had been making for a new story, and he felt the old beat of pleasure in his body, like watching a perfect goal, like the rustling movement of light through leaves, a phrase of music from the window of a passing car. Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”

Normal People Sally Rooney

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“She would have lain on the ground, and let him walk over her body if he wanted, he knew that”

Normal People Sally Rooney

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“Life is exactly the same. Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”

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Author:Sally Rooney

“In a way I like the idea of something so dramatic happening to me. I would like to upset people's expectations.”

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Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“In other words, she's a nice person, and Connell is beginning to understand that he actually likes nice people, that he even wants to be one”

Normal People Sally Rooney

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“and the intensity of the privacy between them is severe, pressing in on him with an almost physical pressure on his face and body”

Normal People Sally Rooney

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“At times he has the sensation that he and Marianne are like figure skaters, improvising their discussions so adeptly and in such perfect synchronisation that it surprises them both. She tosses herself gracefully into the air, and each time, without knowing how he's going to do it, he catches her.”

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Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“It doesn't always work, but I do my best. See what happens. Go on in any case living.”

Life Fiction Living Literary Fiction Sally Rooney

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo