“She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“As for me, it’s hard to say in what tangle of feelings I found myself. I always defended Lila, and I liked doing so, I liked to hear myself speak with the authority of one who is studying difficult subjects.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“If she wants Marcello Solara, I will resign myself. I love her so much that if she's happy with someone else I will withdraw and between us everything will remain as it is now. But if she wants me--if she wants me--there's no help for it, you must give her to me.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“If you don't try, nothing ever changes.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“I missed only Lila, Lila who didn’t answer my letters. I was afraid of what was happening to her, good or bad, in my absence. It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
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