Manuel Gubernale

“Così dunque la vita é rimasta un mistero. E io stesso, per me, sono ancora il primo mistero.”
― Elsa Morante, L'isola di Arturo

“Much of history is unwritten. Remember this.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet. I was making it, standing there, breathing, fixing the air around my body with stillness, trying to capture something—a thought, I guess—as though such a thing were possible, as though I believed in the delusion described in those paintings—that time could be contained, held captive.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West