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“She wanted not only to disappear herself, now, at the age of sixty-six, but also to eliminate the entire life that she had left behind.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“It's weird knowing someone just casually, he said, and then later finding out they're observing things all the time. It's like, God, what has this person noticed about me?”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“something had begun to emanate from Lila’s mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves,”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend