#intensequotes

I felt like a stranger to myself, like I was no longer living my life but instead being propelled through it by interesting forces beyond my control.

— Sally Rooney, Concord 34.

I feel so frightened of being hurt — not of the suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of the suffering, the indignity of being open to it.

—Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You.