Sally Rooney Quotes

“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.”
― Sally Rooney, 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.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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

“When I read the Bible I picture you as Jesus, so maybe fainting in a church was a metaphor after all.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“In a way I like the idea of something so dramatic happening to me. I would like to upset people's expectations.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“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.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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

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

“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.”
― Sally Rooney, 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”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“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”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He watched me at first but then looked away.
"Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said.
"The most major one I can think of, yeah."
"Nobody else would grieve.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around me, as if death was more of a miracle than life was.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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

“Bu noktada tuhaf bir şekilde kendimi tanıyamadığımı, kendi yüzümü ya da bedenimi aklımda canlandıramadığımı fark ettim. Birisi görünmez bir kalemin ucunu kaldırıp yavaşça tüm görünüşümü silmiş gibiydi adeta.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Birisini üstünkörü tanıyıp sonradan her şeyi gözlemlediğini öğrenmek tuhaf bir şey, dedi Nick. İnsan, oha, benimle ilgili neler fark etti acaba diyor.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Apartmanıma girerken, Nick'in herkesin alkışları eşliğinde odaya girişini düşündüm. O an şimdi bana mükemmel görünüyordu, o kadar mükemmeldi ki performansımızı kaçırdığına memnundum. Belki de Nick'in, onun beğenisini kazanmak için hiçbir riske girmem gerekmeksizin başkalarının beni ne kadar beğendiğine tanık olması, onunla yeniden konuşabileceğimi hissetmemi sağlamıştı, sanki ben de tıpkı onun gibi, birçok hayranı olan önemli bir insanmışım ve ondan aşağı kalır bir yanım yokmuş gibi. Fakar alkışlar aynı zamanda performansın bizzat bir parçası gibi de gelmişti, hatta en iyi parçası ve kendimi belli bir tür insana dönüştürme çabamın en saf ifadesiydiler: övgüye ve sevgiye layık bir insana.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“And it was easier and safer to stay in a bad situation than to take responsibility for getting out.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“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.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Antagligen känns minnet av lidande aldrig lika illa som lidandet i stunden, även om det faktiskt var mycket värre- vi kan inte minnas hur mycket värre det var, eftersom minnet är svagare än upplevelsen.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Antagligen känns minnet av lidande aldrig lika illa som lidandet i stunden, även om det faktiskt var mycket värre- vi kan inte minnas hur mycket värre det var, eftersom minnet är svagare än upplevelsen. Kanske är det därför folk i medelåldern alltid tror att deras tankar och känslor är viktigare än yngre människors, för att det bara vagt kan minnas känslorna från sin ungdom medan de låter allt de upplever nu dominera deras perspektiv på livet.”
― Sally Rooney, 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.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Det var svårt att avgöra om han njöt av att hon var besvärad eller om han faktiskt tyckte synd om henne.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I don’t need to make people feel comfortable. In the end, it was me. It may not mean anything to anyone else, but it doesn’t have to – that’s the point. I was number one. Like Fast Eddie, I’m the best there is. And even if you beat me, I’m still the best.”
― Sally Rooney, Even If You Beat Me