Jude

“Ricordo quel momento come uno dei primi in cui mi avvicinai all'età adulta, in cui compresi quanto fosse potente la memoria - o comunque fu la prima volta in cui mi fece così male. E non c'era niente che potessi fare riguardo al dolore del passato - si posò semplicemente su di me.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“The lack of engagement from the no longer tangible participant, I noted, was vast and spreading. Sex and novels and music and movies were the things that made life bearable - not friends, not family, not school, not social scenes, not interactions - and that was the summer when I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark every other week but barely had dinner with my separated parents even twice.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being one of my first moments nearing adulthood, when I realized how powerful memory was — or at least it was the first time it hurt the most. And there was nothing I could do about the pain of the past — it just settled over me.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“Se vuoi salvarti, leggi. E se tu volessi, addirittura, salvare qualcuno, scrivi.”
― Leo Ortolani