Silvia

“Voleva dire che avevamo vissuto ora un frammento piccolo di un giorno che apparteneva a vent'anni prima.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“E poi amavo la scrittura di chi ti fa affacciare da ogni rigo per guardare di sotto e sentire la vertigine della profondità, la nerezza dell'inferno.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“There remained only rare periods of
amorousness that came over the spouses, but they did not last long.
These were islands that they would land on temporarily, but then they
would put out again to the sea of concealed enmity that expressed itself
in estrangement from each other.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“But I’ve always had a low voice, I can’t yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment