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Top 500 Sally Rooney Quotes (2025 Update)
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Sally Rooney Quote: “Is life so much worse here than it would be on the bed, or even in a totally different location? No, life is exactly the same. Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “By refusing to admit that I was sick, I felt I could keep the sickness outside time and space, something only in my own head. If other people knew about it, the sickness would become real and I would have to spend my life being a sick person.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I loved when he was available to me like this, when our relationship was like a Word document that we were writing and editing together, or a long private joke that nobody else could understand.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Marianne felt a relief so high and sudden that it was almost like panic.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “He didn’t call me the next day, or the day after that. Nobody did. Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen. I applied for jobs and turned up for seminars. Things went on.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “It’s as if an impossibly heavy lid has been lifted off his emotional life and suddenly he can breathe fresh air. It is physically possible to type and send a message reading: I love you! It had never seemed possible before, not remotely, but in fact it’s easy. Of course if someone saw the messages he would be embarrassed, but he knows now that this is a normal kind of embarrassment, an almost protective impulse towards a particularly good part of life.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “For weeks now she has had this feeling, the feeling of moving around inside a protective film, floating like mercury. The outside world touches against her outside skin, but not the other part of herself, inside.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “And I do wonder why I’ve spent all this time feeling depressed about the end of something that wasn’t working anyway.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “But when we tore down what confined us, what did we have in mind to replace it? I offer no defence of coercive heterosexual monogamy, except that it was at least a way of doing things, a way of seeing life through. What do we have now? Instead? Nothing. 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 Quote: “He feels ambivalent about this, as if it’s disloyal of him, because maybe he’s enjoying how she looks or some physical aspect of her closeness. He’s not sure what friends are allowed to enjoy about each other.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Most of our attempts throughout human history to describe the difference between right and wrong have been feeble and cruel and unjust, but that the difference still remains- beyond ourselves, beyond each specific culture, beyond every individual person who has ever lived or died, And we spend our lives trying to know that difference and to live by it, trying to love other people instead of hating them, and there is nothing else that matters on the earth.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “He left the room then but he could hear his mother laughing as he went up the stairs. His life is always giving her amusement.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “He often makes blithe remarks about things he ‘wishes’. I wish you didn’t have to go, he says when she’s leaving, or: I wish you could stay the night. If he really wished any of those things, Marianne knows, then they would happen. Connell always gets what he wants, and then feels sorry for himself when what he wants doesn’t make him happy.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “To love someone under capitalism you have to love everyone. Is that theory or just theology?”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Still, he would lie down and die for her at any minute, which is the only thing he knows about himself that makes him feel like a worthwhile person.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Really, my problem is that I’m annoyed at everyone else for not having all the answers, when I also have none.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I had wanted Melissa to take an interest in me and I was’t even sure I liked her. I didn’t have the option not to take her seriously, because she had published a book, which proved that lots of other people took her seriously even if I didn’t. At twenty-one, I had no achievements or possessions that proved I was a serious person.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “He kisses her closed eyelids. It’s not like this with other people, she says. Yeah, he says. I know. She senses there are things he isn’t saying to her. She can’t tell whether he’s holding back a desire to pull away from her, or a desire to make himself more vulnerable somehow. He kisses her neck. Her eyes are getting heavy. I think we’ll be fine, he says. She doesn’t know or can’t remember what he’s talking about. She falls asleep.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “It’s amazing. When I first started going around talking about Marxism, people laughed at me. Now it’s everyone’s thing. And to all these new people trying to make communism cool, I would just like to say, welcome aboard, comrades. No hard feelings. The future is bright for the working class.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Tillerson out of state lmaoooo.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I explained that I wanted to destroy capitalism and that I considered masculinity personally oppressive. Nick told me he was ‘basically’ a Marxist, and he didn’t want me to judge him for owning a house. It’s this or paying rent forever, he said. But I acknowledge it’s troubling.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “It makes me wonder whether celebrity culture has sort of metastasised to fill the emptiness left by religion.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I have to laugh now or I’m going to start crying.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “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.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “The sky was a thrilling chlorine-blue, stretched taut and featureless like silk.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “One of his professors call it ‘the pleasure of being touched by great art’. In those words it almost sounds sexual. And in a way, the feeling provoked in Connell when Mr Knightley kisses Emma’s hand is not completely asexual, though its relation to sexuality is indirect.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “On the platform of a train station, late morning, early June: two women embracing after a separation of several months.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Emotionally, I saw myself as a smooth, hard little ball. He couldn’t get purchase on me. I just rolled away.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “It’s hard to know whether Marianne likes to hear those things; she desires to hear them, but she’s conscious by now of being able to desire in some sense what she does not want.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I thought it would be the same as everything else in my life – difficult and sad – because I was a difficult and sad person. But that’s not what I am anymore, if I ever was. And life is more changeable than I thought. I mean a life can be miserable for a long time and then later happy. It’s not just one thing or another – it doesn’t get fixed into a groove called ‘personality’ and then run along that way until the end.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “She hung up on me. Afterwards I lay on my bed feeling like a light had been switched off.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “These cells may look fairly normal, but they are not.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “He reaches for her hand and she gives it to him without thinking. For a second he holds it, his thumb moving over her knuckles. Then he lifts her hand to his mouth and kisses it. She feels pleasurably crushed under the weight of his power over her, the vast ecstatic depth of her will to please him. That’s nice, she says. He nods. She feels a low gratifying ache inside her body, in her pelvic bone, in her back.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he’s trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “How much terrifying and bewildering status would accrue to her in this one moment, how destabilising it would be, how destructive.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “And I think the space in my life has been cleared out at this stage, and it’s empty, and maybe for that reason it’s time for me to fall in love again. I need to feel that my life has some kind of centre, somewhere for my thoughts to return and rest. I know, by the way, that most people don’t need any such thing, and I would be much healthier if I didn’t.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I started to think about his physical presence in the city, that somewhere inside the city’s structure, standing or sitting, holding his arms one way or another, dressed or undressed, he was present, and Dublin was like an advent calendar concealing him behind one of its million windows.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “I didn’t need to play any games with you, she says. It was real. With Jamie it’s like I’m acting a part, I just pretend to feel that way, like I’m in his power. But with you that really was the dynamic, I actually had those feelings, I would have done anything you wanted me to.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Everyone’s always going through something, aren’t they? That’s life, basically.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. If he left my line of sight for more than a few seconds, I couldn’t even remember what his face looked like.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Our ways of thinking and speaking about sexuality seem so limited, compared to the exhausting and debilitating power of sexuality itself as we experience it in our real lives.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “The scholarships offer five years of paid tuition, free accommodation on campus, and meals in the Dining Hall every evening with the other scholars. For Marianne, who doesn’t pay her own rent or tuition and has no real concept of how much these things cost, it’s just a matter of reputation. She would like her superior intellect to be affirmed in public by the transfer of large amounts of money.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “When they drew apart Connell looked her in the eyes and said: I love you. She was laughing then, and her face was red. She was in his power, he had chosen to redeem her, she was redeemed.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “He doesn’t even have to think about it, because he feels it: its syntax seems to have originated inside him.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “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 were so stupid about each other.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “To love under capitalism, you have to love everyone.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
Sally Rooney Quote: “If you ever touch Marianne again, I’ll kill you, he says. Okay? That’s all. Say one bad thing to her ever again and I’ll come back here myself and kill you, that’s it. It seems to Connell, though he can’t see or hear very well, that Alan is now crying. Do you understand me? Connell says. Say yes or no. Alan says: Yes. Connell turns around, walks out the front door and closes it behind him.”
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