Status Updates From Estasi di libertà

ohoh shit is hitting the fan. cinderella is about to get booted out of the palace.

Im actually bamboozled by Zweigs ability to write a female character's inner world with such precision. What the heck.

“Poverty was crushing all the feeling they had.”

“But whose fault is it? Why are we always the ones who suffer? We didn’t do anything, we didn’t do anything to anyone, but every step we take is a trap.”

“She was shaken to feel wanted again – this time more deeply than ever in her life. It was a glorious confirmation of her own existence and sense of purpose. It was wonderful to be loved at last – she had to repay him for it.”

“I just showed up too late, I fell off the train and can’t catch up no matter how fast I run.”

“I’m thirty and I still don’t know who I am, and I still don’t know what it’s all for, I’ve seen nothing but blood and sweat and filth. I’ve done nothing but wait, wait, and wait some more.”

Beware of pity reference!’n

“Out of shame he was going to be abusive” yeah I guess they always do that huh

This guy is giving white nights doestevsky narrator core rn with his ramble and not this girl trying to equate her hotel experience to his war experience I mean like yes I understand you now know the poverty gap you are facing but mama!!! War?!?

“No one’s going to convince me that breathing and getting fed is all it takes to make everything all right.”

“Once I’m where I want to be, when I can breathe freely, when my own life’s straightened out, maybe then I’ll give some thought to fixing up the world– after I’ve had my dinner.”

“Because suddenly she hates everyone and everything, herself and everyone else, wealth and poverty, everything about this hard, unendurable, incomprehensible life.”

The way there’s no chapter breaks so it really does feel like I’m spiralling with this girl

Take your leave old man on your way too late 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Not Zweig putting lord Elkins in his place like ya bitch you old!!!!!!

“Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.”

“Someone who’s on top of the world isn’t much of an observer: happy people are poor psychologists. But someone who’s troubled about something is on the alert.”

“And suddenly you’re old and faded and you die and you don’t know anything and you never lived and you never knew anything. That horrible, narrow little life back there is going to start up again, and here, here is where everything is, and you have to seize it, but I’m afraid, I lock myself in and save myself like a teenage girl, cowardly, cowardly, and stupid.”