say what you will about sally rooney but she was right for this

when sally rooney wrote “and it was easier and safer to stay in a bad situation than to take responsibility for getting out. Maybe, maybe. I don’t know. I tell myself that I want to live a happy life, and that the circumstances for happiness just haven’t arisen. But what if that’s not true? What if I’m the one who can’t let myself be happy? Because I’m scared, or I prefer to wallow in self-pity, or I don’t believe I deserve good things, or some other reason. 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.” in beautiful world where are you, i felt that

the world of living and loving in parallel with one another.

@bakwaaas / Tamino, “My Dearest Friend And Enemy” / journal entries of a twentysomething year old, Mia (Mimi) Garcia / Hozier, “Like Real People Do”/ James Fenton, “The Ideal”/ Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You / comic strip found here: x

Connell is just like me for real.

shadow and bone (2021 - 2023) // the drowning faith (r.f. kuang) // the borgias (2011 - 2013) // beautiful world, where are you (sally rooney) // hilda furacão (1998) // bob dylan, on joan baez // religion (lana del rey - honeymoon)

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

— Sally Rooney, Mr Salary.

the rawness of human relationships and emotions

Afterglow by Ed Sheeran // Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Roooney // Work Song by Hozier // Martin Amis // pinterest // The Girls by Emma Cline // Ask Polly

you know, when beautiful world where are you? came out, i questioned whether this whole thing was realistic but i’ve just spent two hours in a dublin pub talking about how fine of a lad paul mescal is and how capitalism is fucked, and it’s just occurred to me how this is all sally rooney’s world and we’re just borrowing it.

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

i feel like no one talks enough about being in love with people in different ways. like yes you can be in love with someone romantically and thats what everyone talks about but i want to hear about being in love platonically. feeling a kind of love for someone where you don’t want to kiss them or fuck them but you’ll be by their side for eternity and if and when the bond is broken your entire world shatters. a connection that goes beyond that of romance and you feel like you found your soulmate. like boris and theo or james and sirius or alice and eileen like i just want to hear about these beautiful soul crushing connections but they all somehow get warped into this hollywood vision of romance and sex when it doesn’t have to be that instead it can just be two beings platonically in love

Reading two Sally Rooney novels back to back in quick succession makes you feel deranged, but in a sort of intellectual way.

sally rooney is the only author that can write simply and yet include the most complex metaphors and structuring. she will forever be one of my favourite authors. ☀️

my friend and i made this quiz to know which sally rooney character you are. enjoy

the problem with Sally Rooney coded girlies is that they’re Sally Rooney coded girlies. hope this helps 🫶🏻