Valentino Quotes

“It is hardest to kill the man who has the most to live for.’ He took a pretend shot. ‘The empty, the soulless, the hate-filled enemies drop like flies. Those who love, and love hard, are the ones left standing.”
― Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa

“You can’t avoid the inevitability of death. It comes at you one way or another, and takes us all to the same place in the end. To apologize for it is to apologize for the sun shining or the rain falling. It is what it is.”
― Catherine Doyle

“I'm no longer a short story. I'm now a novel.
Better yet, I'm a work in progress.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“You’re so full of shit, if you ever had an enema you’d evaporate into thin air.”
― Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa

“I write short stories because I am one.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“Valentino and Valentina . . . That's some psycho shit.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“When I did finally come to, I reported to Patrick that Valentino (not the dress designer but the silent movie star) had auditioned Patrick and me. At the climactic moment we had to twirl pantless, go into splits, and leave on the floor an inked impression of our anuses. Valentino had liked my impression more than Patrick’s and called me back for a second audition, which didn’t go so well.”
― Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

“Così non ho nessuno con cui dire le vere parole: le vere parole, di tutta la nostra storia così com’è stata : e me le teno dentro, e certe volte me pare che mi strozzino il fiatto.”
― GINZBURG Natalia -