Andrew Fultz

“Mmm, you tell me how anyone can doubt the existence of God after eating a margherita pizza.”
― Maurizio de Giovanni, The Bastards of Pizzofalcone

“Beautiful writing becomes beautiful when it loses its harmony and has the desperate power of the ugly. And characters? I feel they are false when they exhibit clear coherence and I become passionate about them when they say one thing and do the opposite.”
― Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

“The road to Damascus isn't as well marked as the road dedicated to revelation. It's a road like any other on which, slogging and sweating, we may by chance become aware of another possible way.”
― Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

“I would have liked to live that life, the one evoked by the mirror, or by Jacques's plate, a life without prospects, for the possibility of that life becoming a work of art would vanish through the mirror, would be a life with neither once upon a time, nor ever after, with neither surroundings nor horizons: just here and now—beautiful, full, enclosed.”
― Muriel Barbery , Gourmet Rhapsody