Elsa Curado

“Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child