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Elena Ferrante

“Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?”

Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
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The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels, #2) The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
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