“Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“Never trust a duck.”
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“Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
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