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“Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.”
― Fragments: Elena Ferrante on Writing, Reading, and Anonymity
― Fragments: Elena Ferrante on Writing, Reading, and Anonymity
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― The Undomestic Goddess
― The Undomestic Goddess
“she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
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