“In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“For Blitz, meanwhile, an almost tragic dilemma had begun. As time passed, he and Giuseppe understood each other better and better, conversing and playing… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“A merrier baby than he had never been seen. Everything he glimpsed around him roused his interest and stirred him to joy. He looked… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“How strange and unnatural destiny is. I married a man eight years younger than myself, and according to the law of nature I should… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!” — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told. — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“She was still obliged to leave the house every day, on her usual hunt for food; and especially on days of bad weather she… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“In his endless journeys of exploration, crawling on all fours around the Urals and the Amazon and the Australian archipelagos which the furniture of… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
