You Had To Run With A Night Like This, So The Sadness Could Not Hurt.

You had to run with a night like this, so the sadness could not hurt.

Ray Bradbury, from Something Wicked This Way Comes (via wholesomeobsessive)

Connell always gets what he wants, and then feels sorry for himself when what he wants doesn’t make him happy.

Normal People by Sally Rooney  (via wholesomeobsessive)

Then they go down the stairs and out of the hospital, into the bright, clammy sunshine.

Normal People by Sally Rooney  (via wholesomeobsessive)

Her rage filled the house, flat stale smoke. It got into everything, into our hair and our food, like the fallout they talked to us about in school that would one day drift down soft as snow.

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (via wholesomeobsessive)

Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence?

Sally Rooney, Normal People (via wholesomeobsessive)

People in college are like this, unpleasantly smug one minute and then abasing themselves to show off their manners the next.

Normal People by Sally Rooney (via wholesomeobsessive)