Quotes from Elena Ferrante

Volevo scrivere storie piene di spifferi.

Bref je l'aimais, j'en était consciente et j'était heureuse de l'aimer.

But within a few years I began to feel old age, it was as if I were fading along with the world in which I had established myself.

Há essa presunção em quem se sente predestinado às artes, sobretudo à literatura: trabalha-se como alguém que tivesse recebido uma investidura, mas de fato ninguém jamais nos investiu de coisa nenhuma, fomos nós que demos a nós mesmos a autorização para sermos autores, mas lamentamos quando os outros dizem: essa ninharia que você fez não me interessa, aliás, me entedia, quem lhe deu o direito.

Do you think Dino is intelligent?" "All children are, you just have to train them.

tal vez, frente al abandono seamos todos iguales; tal vez ni siquiera una cabeza bien ordenada puede aguantar al descubrir que no es amada.

Il m'aimait sans aucune tension et moi-même je le pris progressivement en affection.

sometimes a mysterious connection is established between our mental circuits and the events whose echo is about to reach us.

Io sono l'otto di spada, io sono la vespa che punge, io sono la serpe scura. lo sono l'animale invulnerabile che attraversa il fuoco e non si brucia.

Others haven't had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we're startled, we're alarmed.

Dass er niemand ist. Und für einen, der niemand ist, gibt es nichts Wichtigeres, als jemand zu werden. Daraus folgt, dass dieser Signor Sarratore ein unzuverlässiger Mensch ist.«

to be healthy, and desperate to be a Natasha at the ball with Prince Andrei or Kuryagin, and instead to be sitting alone, staring at the ceiling, while listening to the echo of the music, the sound of voices, the laughter.

I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.

both had always known instinctively that the limbs of a man are not nourished when he fills the belly of another, and that those who would make you believe it should sooner or later get what they deserve.

Quindi andò via frastornata, con l'impressione di essersi esposta troppo a persone sì di animo buono, ma che, anche se capivano tutto in astratto, in concreto non potevano capirla.

Aveva provato la gioia dell'amore per quell'uomo così lontano dalla media – un controllore sui treni ma anche un poeta, un giornalista – e la sua mente fragile non era riuscita a riadattarsi alla normalità grezza della vita senza di lui.

Was für eine Verschwendung wäre es, unsere Geschichte damit zu verderben, dass wir negativen Gefühlen zu viel Raum ließen. Negative Gefühle sind unvermeidlich, es kommt aber darauf an, sie in Grenzen zu halten.‹

Devo reimparare il passo tranquillo di chi crede di sapere dove sta andando e perché

uncultured youths who make random pronouncements on everything

But her husband was sleeping, he had fallen asleep as if wrapped in a magic cape.

here is Vesuvius which reminds you every day that the greatest undertaking of powerful men, the most splendid work, can be reduced to nothing in a few seconds by the fire, and the earthquake, and the ash, and the sea.

Für gewöhnlich neigte ich dazu, nicht dem Bedeutung beizumessen, was mir guttat, sondern dem, was ihm gefallen könnte.

Aunt Lina said that the spirits existed, but not in the palaces, or in the alleys, or near the ancient gates of the Vasto. They existed in people's ears, in the eyes when the eyes looked inside and not out, in the voice as soon as it begins to speak, in the head when it thinks, because words are full of ghosts but so are images.

Hayat matla?t???nda seni korkutmal?d?r.' -'Hayat ?st?rap oldu?unda korkutuyor beni.