Silvia Dibi

“Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“L'assioma dell'uguaglianza stabilisce che x è sempre uguale a x: pertanto, un oggetto che chiameremo x deve essere necessariamente uguale a se stesso; ciò che lo rende unico, perché in possesso di una caratteristica così immutabile che siamo costretti a considerarlo assolutamente, inevitabilmente, uguale a se stesso per sempre, e perché la sua elementarità non potrà mai essere alterata.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“They had the rare kind of friendship that allowed for a great deal of privacy within it. One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity. The least he could do was return the favor.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow