Lunetune

“My punishment had finally arrived. It wasn't poison, it wasn't death -- it was life.”
― Rosella Postorino, At the Wolf's Table

“Her doctoral dissertation was to have been on the “saturation hypothesis,” a theory of her own devising which held that every word in a work of literature, far from having one or two most likely meanings, meant everything that any reader could make of it, and that each supposed meaning was of equal value to all others. This theory, she said, dovetailed with other current literary theories that gave more power to critics and less to writers, who tended to write with finite intentions.”
― J. Robert Lennon, Pieces for the Left Hand: Stories

“Il primo giorno di scuola, quando mia madre mi aveva lasciato in classe andando via, il pensiero che potesse accadermi qualcosa di male a sua insaputa mi aveva riempita di tristezza. Non era tanto la minaccia del mondo su di me, quanto l'impotenza di mia madre, a commuovermi. Che la mia vita scorresse mentre lei ne era ignara mi pareva inaccettabile. Ciò che restava nascosto, seppur non di proposito, era già un tradimento. In classe, avevo cercato una crepa nel muro, una ragnatela, una cosa che potesse essere mia come un segreto. Gli occhi avevano pagato per la stanza, che sembrava enorme; poi avevo notato un frammento di battiscopa mancante, e mi ero calmata.”
― Rosella Postorino, At the Wolf's Table

“The world breaks everyone and afterward
many are strong at the broken places. But
those that will not break it kills. It kills the very
good and the very gentle and the very brave
impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees