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“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“To carry out any project to which you attach your own name you have to love yourself.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“after all that waiting they hadn't had very long at all in the end”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“I trusted you. I trusted you with every last secret, I offered you every piece of me. What else have I got, now?”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“I wouldn't have given up on you, if the positions had been switched. I would have never loved again. You already had it - it was already yours, all the love I ever had to give.”
― Rollercoasterwords, All the Young Dudes: Sirius's Perspective