Alison Mann

“For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“I would have the small happinesses of the unmarried girl in glasses who spends her life studying: a walk, being taken by the hand.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child