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Elena Ferrante

The Troubling Love

  • Jovana Spasićhas quotedlast year
    To speak is to link together lost times and spaces.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    To speak is to link together lost times and spaces.
  • silviaa98has quoted4 years ago
    The irony of the lines that connect moments to meetings, to separations, to old rancors
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    sheets and blankets had been mended with a care that, given their age, they didn’t deserve.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    As I passed the mirror I smiled involuntarily, to calm myself.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Amalia, who had always dressed shabbily because she was poor but also because she was in the habit of not making herself attractive—a habit acquired many decades earlier to placate the jealousy of my father—seemed to have suddenly decided to get rid of her entire wardrobe.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    I closed my eyes to give her time to detach herself from the ceiling and return to death; then I reopened them and looked at the clock.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    “I’m Delia,” I answered. “What is on the top floor? What do you have of hers?”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Maybe I wanted to try to establish an intimacy that there had never been, maybe I wanted to let her know in some confused way that I had always been unhappy.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    But she seemed to me only amused by the fact that I had sat suspended in the void, in a dilapidated elevator.
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