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“I mean, why bother if I'm just going to tell you exactly. Where's the fun in that? Why bother making art at all?”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“Sometimes when I tell myself or Ava the story, it grows teeth and it’s something. Definitely something. Other times, it comes apart in my hands like air. But if I remember all the right details. If I tell them in the right order. If I pause in the right places, trail off in the right places . . .”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“For your whole life you love people and you never really know who they are.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name