The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)

by Elena Ferrante

Yet I found that I couldn’t feel excited. It was as if, since I loved Nino and he loved me, that love made everything good that happened to me and would happen to me nothing but a pleasant secondary effect.

(Women take men away from other women without any scruples, in fact with great satisfaction).

the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.

Fucking is very overrated.”

Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?