Dunja

“the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

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

“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“As for infidelities, he said, if you don’t find out about them at the right moment they’re of no use: when you’re in love you forgive everything. For infidelities to have their real impact some lovelessness has to develop first. And he went on like that, piling up painful remarks about the blindness of people in love.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child