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oh my god literally biting my knuckles and covering my face and crying at this. how does elena ferrante convey such vile and twisted concepts with such ease and simplicity.

“As he spoke I heard clearly the ridiculousness of his trained voice, the crudeness of his poeticizing, the sleazy lyric using behind which he concealed his eagerness to put his hands on me.” GOD let me forget i read this chapter please

accidentally removed this from my bookshelves oops

nino sarratore is the exact type of boy i would fall in love with: intellectual, tall, ugly in a pretty way, and very much into someone else

the accuracy that elena ferrante depicts the mental conflict that happens in a maturing girl’s brain, especially about relationships/sex is so crazily accurate, i feel like she looked into my brain and stole my thoughts.