Aaron’s Reviews > Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay > Status Update

"And this is how I see it today: it's not the neighborhood that's sick, it's not Naples, it's the entire Earth, it's the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things."

"I thought of... how many who had been girls with us were no longer alive, had disappeared from the face of the earth because of illness, because their nervous systems had been unable to endure the sandpaper of torments, because their blood had been spilled."

Sandpaper of torments??? I love Elena Ferrante so much.