Daria C

“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

“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

“Was it possible that only our neighborhood was filled with conflicts and violence, while the rest of the city was radiant, benevolent?”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“I don't want any more twisted relationships, and I'm tired of not being able to find satisfaction in the present and being obsessed with the past or having high expectations of new relationships.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki