Alison Mann

“she theorized that a woman without love for her origins is lost.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend