Sara

“When there’s too much silence, she said, so many ideas come to mind, I don’t pay attention. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“The universe has cancer. It has one tiny, appallingly deadly tumour which cannot be excised. In the future, the tumour will expand and it will eat into the universe until there is nothing left, and then the cancer will be the universe, but we won’t be in it. We’ll be dead, and in fact we’ll never have existed at all, because the cancer will have swallowed time and unravelled it and nothing which has ever happened in this universe will exist anymore, not even as history.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“He had rid himself so fiercely of memory, language, the capacity to find meaning that it seemed obvious the hatred he had for himself, for his own skin, for his moods, for his thoughts and words, for the brutal corner of the world that had enveloped him.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child