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

“Those notebooks I memorized, and in the end they made me feel that the world of the Normale—and the friends, male and female, who respected me, the affectionate looks of those professors who encouraged me to constantly do more—was part of a universe that was too protected and thus too predictable, compared with that tempestuous world that, in the conditions of life in the neighborhood, Lila had been able to explore in her hurried lines, on pages that were crumpled and stained.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“No, on the contrary, the sculptor merely unveils the shape—for talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.”
― Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody

“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