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“And I do wonder why I’ve spent all this time feeling depressed about the end of something that wasn’t working anyway.” (Beautiful World, Where Are You Quotes)
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“And life is more changeable than I thought. I mean a life can be miserable for a long time and then later happy.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“And now I just feel like the kind of person whose life partner would fall out of love with them after several years, and I can’t find a way not to be that kind of person anymore.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Anyway, as a consequence, each day has now become a new and unique informational unit, interrupting and replacing the informational world of the day before.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“But if you think there’s any chance that I could make you happy, I wish you would let me try. Because it’s the only thing I really want to do with my life.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“But we all have something wrong with us anyway, don’t we? I looked at the internet for too long today and started feeling depressed.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“But, I think more importantly, great novels engage my sympathies and make me desire things.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Everyone is understandably attached to particular identity categories, but at the same time largely unwilling to articulate what those categories consist of, how they came about, and what purposes they serve.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“How graceful she looked in the crowd, his eyes followed her, her long beautiful neck, her shoulders gleaming in the sunlight. Like watching his life walk away from him.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I feel so frightened of being hurt – not of the suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of suffering, the indignity of being open to it.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I feel very embarrassed by all that now, but I was lonely and unhappy, and I didn’t understand that these feelings were ordinary, that there was nothing singular about my loneliness, my unhappiness.” (Beautiful World, Where Are You Quotes)
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I find it hard to believe anything really bad about myself when I consider how much he loves me.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I started keeping a diary, which I called ‘the life book’. I began with the idea of writing one short entry each day, just a line or two, describing something good. I suppose by ‘good’ I must have meant something that made me happy or brought me pleasure.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I suppose I think that having a child is simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing. And I want that- to prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed but love and care. To prove it to whom, I wonder. Myself, maybe.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I think I would feel superficially sadder, but less fundamentally broken as a person, if I could just be sad about one break-up, rather than sad about my lifelong inability to sustain a meaningful relationship.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I think of the twentieth century as one long question, and in the end we got the answer wrong. Aren’t we unfortunate babies to be born when the world ended? After that there was no chance for the planet, and no chance for us.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I think the beauty industry is responsible for some of the worst ugliness we see around us in our visual environment, and the worst, most false aesthetic ideal, which is the ideal of consumerism.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I will probably continue to make poor life decisions and suffer recurrent depressive episodes”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I’m not trying to make you feel that your horrible life is in fact a privilege, although by any reasonable definition it very literally is.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I’m sorry to say that I think it is too late to change the way we have turned out. The turning-out process has come to an end, and we are to a very great extent what we are.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn’t have made me who I am.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“If novelists wrote honestly about their own lives, no one would read novels—and quite rightly!”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“If you weren’t my friend I wouldn’t know who I was, she said.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“In that case we are standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“It was important to me then to prove that I was a special person. And in my attempt to prove it, I made it true.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“It would be a sort of sick, insane thing to do, a way of mutilating my real life as a gesture of submission to an imagined future.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“It’s so hard to see the point sometimes, when the things in life I think are meaningful turn out to mean nothing, and the people who are supposed to love me don’t.” (Beautiful World, Where Are You Quotes)
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Maybe certain kinds of pain, at certain formative stages in life, just impress themselves into a person’s sense of self permanently.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Maybe we’re just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn’t it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world’s resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it’s the very reason I root for us to survive – because we are so stupid about each other.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Of course I know in my brain that everything we tell ourselves about human civilisation is a lie. But imagine having to find out in real life.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“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.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Remembering is weaker than experiencing.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“So of course in the midst of everything, the state of the world being what it is, humanity on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship. What else is there to live for?”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“That’s the thing about work, if it was any good you’d do it for free.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“The present has become discontinuous. Each day, even each hour of each day, replaces and makes irrelevant the time before, and the events of our lives make sense only in relation to a perpetually updating timeline of news content.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“The worst thing is that I actually think people on there are generally well meaning and the impulses are right, but our political vocabulary has decayed so deeply and rapidly since the twentieth century that most attempts to make sense of our present historical moment turn out to be essentially gibberish.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“We can’t conserve anything, and especially not social relations, without altering their nature, arresting some part of their interaction with time in an unnatural way.” (Beautiful World, Where Are You Quotes)
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“We’ve been apart for too long, she said. We’re shy with each other now.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“We’ll always be in each other’s lives and we’ll always have this feeling between us, and it’s better.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Whatever I can do, whatever insignificant talent I might have, people just expect me to sell it- I mean literally, sell it for money, until I have a lot of money and no talent left.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“When I look back at those years, I feel touched and almost pained by the simplicity of the life I was living, because I knew what I had to do, and I did it, that was all.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn’t changed very much since I was a child – a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that’s all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Whenever something good happens to me I always find myself thinking: I wonder how long it will be until this turns out badly. And I almost want the worst to happen sooner, sooner rather than later, and if possible straight away, so at least I don’t have to feel anxious about it anymore.”
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
