The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.”
“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
“Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.”
“I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.”
“To write, you have to want something to survive you.”
“As for infidelities, he said, if you don’t find out about them at the right moment they’re of no use: when you’re in love you forgive everything. For infidelities to have their real impact some lovelessness has to develop first. And he went on like that, piling up painful remarks about the blindness of people in love.”
“Lies are better than tranquilizers.”
“No, to produce ideas you don't have to be a saint. And anyway there are very few true intellectuals. The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.”
“the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.”
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