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“Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at it now, was not how big or how small her mother's world was, but that her mother had managed to keep it at all. It must have been no trifling thing to carve out a space of her own, to protect it and hold within it the people she loved.”
― Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

“I feel ugly, like I’m a bad person, and yet I’d like to be loved.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

“(...) los estudios genéticos se convierten en un aliado imprescindible, pero no deben ser tratados como una panacea. De considerarlos de esta manera obturan la visión, y lo que puede ser una herramienta excelente se transforma, mas bien, en un instrumento tosco (...)”
― Pablo Esteban, Inocentes: La ciencia forense en el laberinto judicial

“La prima volta che ho visto Enzo è stato a una festa da ballo e abbiamo ballato questo ballo qui” la sentii dire.
“Quanto tempo fa?”
“Questo 23 maggio diciassette anni.”
“È passato molto tempo.”
“Non è passato nemmeno un minuto.”
― Elena Ferrante, La vita bugiarda degli adulti