The Story of the Lost Child

by Elena Ferrante

How many words remain unsayable even between a couple in love, and how the risk is increased that others might say them, destroying it.

“I’m lying, yes, but why do you force me to give you a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.

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.