Sarah

“Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“...maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“That year it seemed to me that I expanded like pizza dough.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend