Sara

“We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“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

“Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I’m able to say.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“And so later Hannah was back at the kitchen table in her house. Sitting where she’d sat earlier. Her place. Hannah didn’t know that humankind has a deep-set belief in the idea that we create and maintain reality through ritual, that repeated actions are what keep the spheres in alignment. She also didn’t know that it doesn’t work, and that there are far older, more complex, and much darker designs in motion, ones that override ours as effortlessly as a crack of thunder blotting out birdsong.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence: A Humorous Urban Fantasy About Family Secrets and a World Where Nothing Is as It Seems