Silvia

“– Sto uscendo! Anche oggi non torno per pranzo, abbiamo gli ultimi scrutini. Vi ho lasciato il pranzo pronto.
– Maaa’!
– Che c’è, noioso? Sono sulla porta e ho fretta!
– Qui non c’è nessun pranzo pronto!
– Come, non c’è?! I pelati sono nell’armadio a lato del frigo, la pasta ve l’ho messa nello scaffale di destra e per l’acqua basta aprire il rubinetto! Più pronto di così.”
― Francesco Abate, Mia madre e altre catastrofi

“You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.”
― Jim Carroll

“What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
― Fahmida Riaz

“Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever said anything really important in my entire life -- there's a lack of words for the most important things anyway. (I must make a list of missing words -- top of it I'll put a verb that means something in between "I sense" and "I see.")”
― Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night