Eleni

“There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Ringrazio
tutti coloro che non amo
perché non mi fanno venire il mal di testa
non mi fanno scrivere lunghe lettere
non agitano i miei sogni
non li attendo con ansia
non leggo i loro oroscopi sul giornale
non compongo il loro numero di telefono
non li penso.
Li ringrazio molto
non mi mettono in subbuglio la vita”.


"I thank everyone I don't love.
They don't cause me heartache
they don't make me write long letters
they don't disturb my dreams
I don't await them anxiously
I don't read their horoscopes in magazines
I don't dial their numbers
I don't think of them.
I thank them a lot
they don't turn my life upside down.”
― Dunya Mikhail

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning