“Good feelings are fragile, with me love doesn’t last. Love for a man doesn’t last, not even love for a child, it… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Even as a child, he said, I knew I wasn't what the others thought but not what I thought, either. I said… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week:… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Quanto a mim, várias vezes ao dia me acontece de gostar de alguém. Você não? Durante pouco tempo, depois passa.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Svakog dana sam sebi ponavljala: to sam što sam, i nema mi druge nego da se s tim pomirim; takva sam rođena, u ovom… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same story: inside something… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“She became transparent skin over bones, her eyes drowning in violet wells, her hands damp spider webs.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“When you haven’t been in the world long, it’s hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
