Sally Rooney Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I' m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me. Normal People

2. My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Mr Salary

3. At times I think of human relationships as something soft life sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape. Beautiful World, Where Are You

4. He has sincerely wanted to die, but he has never sincerely wanted Marianne to forget about him. That’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her. Normal People

5. I had left myself no one to confine in, no one who would feel any sympathy for what I'd done. And after all that, he was in love with someone else. I screwed my eyes shut and presses my head down hard into the pillow. I thought of the night before, when he told me that he wanted me, how it felt then. Just admit it, I thought. He doesn't love you. That's what hurts. Conversations with Friends

6. I lay there in the bath not thinking, not doing anything. After a few seconds, I heard her open the front door, and then her voice saying: she's had a really rough day, so just be nice to her. And Nick said: I know, I will. I loved them both so much in this moment that I wanted to appear in front of them like a benevolent ghost and sprinkle blessings into their lives. Thank you, I wanted to say. Thank you both. You are my family now. Conversations with Friends

7. Marianne replaces the yogurt pot in the freezer now and asks Joanna if she finds it strange, to be paid for her hours at work - to exchange, in other words, blocks of her extremely limited time on this earth for the human invention known as money. Normal People

8. Time skimmed past us like an ice skater. Two Stories

9. You think everyone you like is special, she said. I'm just a normal person. When you get to like someone, you make them feel like they're different from everyone else. You're doing it with Nick, you did it with me once. Conversations with Friends