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Ferrante's writings have always been deeply personal. I suspect that most women who read her feel as if she is as close to their hearts as a true friend. The beauty in reading many of her works lies in the themes she reiterates over and again. I've h ...more "
“We said nothing for several minutes. Our minds weighed like ripened fruit on the branch. When one is confronted by the mirror, the spirit trembles.”
― The Mixquiahuala Letters
― The Mixquiahuala Letters
“I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.”
― The Lying Life of Adults
― The Lying Life of Adults
“i too suffer from dreams.”
― The Mixquiahuala Letters
― The Mixquiahuala Letters
“I don't know why so many of our ideals were stamped out like cigarette butts when we believed in them so furiously. Perhaps we were not furious enough.”
― The Mixquiahuala Letters
― The Mixquiahuala Letters
“One night my mother said to me: “Your father is younger than you. You’re growing up and he’s still a child. He’ll remain a child forever, an extraordinarily intelligent child hypnotized by his games. If you don’t keep an eye on him, he gets hurt. I should have understood him as a girl, but then he seemed to me a grown man.”
― The Lying Life of Adults
― The Lying Life of Adults
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