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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)

by Elena Ferrante

bookshelves: 2018-books, italian, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 2018

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eli said: " Oh, Elena Ferrante. My heart beamed so much at the last chapter of the book. Her words are so beautiful and real. "

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— Jan 18, 2018 12:47PM

Jan 19, 2018 01:26PM · see review

eli’s Quotes

“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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“It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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“My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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