Daria C

“The human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“We are flying over a ball of fire. The part that has cooled floats on the lava. On that part we construct the buildings, the bridges, and the streets, and every so often the lava comes out of Vesuvius or causes an earthquake that destroys everything. There are microbes everywhere that make us sick and die. There are wars. There is a poverty that makes us all cruel. Every second something might happen that will cause you such suffering that you'll never have enough tears. And what are you doing?”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“While I was taking my exams in the second year of high school, she told me that in the spring, when she was barely sixteen and a half, she would be married.

This news upset me.

I was no longer able to trace a coherent design in the division of our fates. The concreteness of that date made concrete the crossroads that would separate our lives.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“We were holding on to each other to get warm, while they rushed to grab cylinders with fat fuses, disturbed by how much money could be transformed into fiery trails, sparks, explosions, smoke for the pure satisfaction of winning.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend