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Circle of Days

by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)

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“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

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“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

tags: ferrantefever, intellect, intelligence, intelligent-people, simile

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“Not for you,” Lila replies ardently, “you’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

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“I would rather die and to go hell than wake up one day and find myself an inmate in that guesthouse of gone minds, gone things, bad carpets, furniture that needs permission.”
― Ali Smith, There But For The

tags: elderly, guesthouse, old-age-home

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“The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn’t find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

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