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“Non lo stiamo sognando?"
"Non lo stiamo sognando."
"Anche se fosse, non potremmo saperlo.”
― David Almond, Skellig

“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Era come se ci stessimo guardando a vicenda nel punto in cui nascevano i nostri sogni.”
― David Almond, Skellig

“Se non c'e' amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle citta”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“But the acclaim also felt like part of the performance itself, the best part, and the most pure expression of what I was trying to do, which was to make myself into this kind of person: someone worthy of praise, worthy of love.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Cosa fai?" mi chiese Mina.
"Voglio solo essere sicuro che il mondo ci sia ancora." dissi.”
― David Almond, Skellig

“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Fu come se in una notte di luna piena sul mare, una massa nerissima di temporale avanzasse per il cielo, ingoiasse ogni chiarore, logorasse la circonferenza del cerchio lunare e sformasse il disco lucente riducendolo alla sua vera natura di grezza materia insensata.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being in a band, writing plays and children's books, she had tried acting and getting a job in publishing. Perhaps crime fiction was just another failed project to place alongside trapeze, Buddhism and Spanish.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Era molto semplice: non farlo era impossibile. Impensabile. E quando capisci che non puoi più evitare, o rinviare, o ignorare una necessità, il rischio cessa di essere un deterrente.”
― Patrick McGrath, Follia

“Di notte, quando il resto del mondo è andato a dormire, tutto sembra possibile”
― David Almond, Skellig

“Le immagini, le parabole e i paradossi di cui si servono altri linguaggi, come quello della poesia e della religione, per indicare le cose non stanno a significare che quelle cose non esistono, ma che quello è l'unico modo di afferrarle o avvicinarle”
― Alessandro D'Avenia, L'appello

“è solo che mi sento così triste in queste notti meravigliose... Un po' lo so che non torneranno più e io non riesco a godermele fino in fondo.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi.”
― Patrick McGrath, Follia

“Se non lo sai non posso spiegartelo".
"allora non si può definire? Non se ne può parlare? è una cosa che nasce, che non si può ignorare, che distrugge la vita delle persone. Ma non possiamo dire nient'altro, Esiste, e basta.”
― Patrick McGrath, Follia

“Sai cos'è la plebe?". "Sì, maestra". Cos'era la plebe lo seppi in quel momento, e molto più chiaramente di quando anni prima la Oliviero me l'aveva chiesto. La plebe eravamo noi. La plebe era quel contendersi il cibo insieme al vino, quel litigare per chi veniva servito per primo e meglio, quel pavimento lurido su cui passavano e ripassavano i camerieri, quei brindisi sempre più volgari. La plebe era mia madre, che aveva bevuto e ora si lasciava andare con la schiena contro la spalla di mio padre, serio, e rideva a bocca spalancata per le allusioni sessuali del commerciante di metalli. Ridevano tutti, anche Lila, con l'aria di chi ha un ruolo e lo porta fino in fondo.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Io m'infiammo insieme a lei, qui, nel momento stesso in cui mi parla.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Era stato lui a esprimere il desiderio che il fidanzamento venisse annunciato, eppure non era così che avrebbe voluto far conoscere a tutti la sua felicità. Gli pareva, proclamandola nell'eccitazione e nel frastuono di un salone affollato, di privarla di quel delicato profumo di intimità tanto necessario alle cose che uno sente più calde nel cuore. La sua gioia era così profonda che questa increspatura superficiale ne lasciava intatta l'essenza, ma avrebbe desiderato ne fosse conservata pura anche la superficie.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence