Olya

“she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Sometimes blessings are indiscriminate.”
― Jami Attenberg, Saint Mazie

“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.”
― Elena Ferrante, Fragments: Elena Ferrante on Writing, Reading, and Anonymity