“Notte raminga e fuggitiva lanciata veloce lungo le strade d’Emilia a spolmonare quel che ho dentro, notte solitaria e vagabonda a pensierare in auto verso la prateria, lasciare che le storie riempiano la testa che così poi si riposa, come stare sulle piazze a spiare la gente che passeggia e fa salotto e guarda in aria, tante fantasie una sopra e sotto all’altra, però non s’affatica nulla. Correre allora, la macchina va dove vuole, svolta su e giù dalla via Emilia incontro alle colline e alle montagne oppure verso i fiumi e le bonifiche e i canneti. Poi tra Reggio e Parma lasciare andare il tiramento di testa e provare a indovinare il numero dei bar, compresi quelli all’interno delle discoteche e dei dancing all’aperto ora che è agosto e hanno alzato persino le verande per godersi meglio le zanzare e il puzzo della campagna grassa e concimata. Lungo la via Emilia ne incontro le indicazioni luminose e intermittenti, i parcheggi ampi e infine le strutture di cemento e neon violacei e spot arancioni e grandifari allo iodio che si alzano dritti e oscillano avanti e indietro così che i coni di luce si intrecciano alti nel cielo e pare allora di stare a Broadway o nel Sunset Boulevard in una notte di quelle buone con dive magnati produttori e grandi miti. Ne immagino ventuno ma prima di entrare in Parma sono già trentatré, la scommessa va a puttane, pazienza, in fondo non importa granché.”
― Camere separate
― Camere separate
“This is a magical place,” I said. “Everything shines here.” “You must stop yourself from thinking like that,” Dr. Kerry said, his voice raised. “You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.' . . . . I says, 'What's this call, this sperit?' An' I says, 'It's love. I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.' . . . . I figgered, 'Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit-the human sperit-the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of.' Now I sat there thinkin' it, an' all of a suddent-I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true, and I still know it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”
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“Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
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