Quotes About Ferrante

Do you want the long answer or the short?" is the customary divide between explanations versus outcomes in the retelling of events. Ferrante gives us both the long answer and the short, and in doing so adumbrates the mysterious beauty and brutality of personal experience.

We gazed at the constellations, praising the portentous architecture of the sky with trite formulas.

Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.

Such tensions without sense push us to formulate questions of meaning.

a bitter sarcasm alternated with a quiet cult of memory.

Roberto the whole time with an attitude

But I must have overdone it, and the relationship between truth and fiction must have gone awry: now every street, every building had become recognizable

Después le tendí el libro a Lila, le dije: ¿Quieres verlo? Ella respondió que no con la cabeza y una mueca displicente.

She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.