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rachel
is on page 228 of 418
“He didn’t want her in order to have sex and then forget her. He wanted the subtlety of her mind with all its ideas. He wanted her imagination. And he wanted her without ruining her, to make her last…” i love how such a seemingly endearing passage can make the reader hate the subject even more for it. i cannot got over how successful ferrante is at exposing the deep flaws in every character (especially men)
— Sep 18, 2023 11:53AM
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rachel
is on page 291 of 418
“Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”
— Sep 20, 2023 10:49PM
rachel
is on page 291 of 418
“The new living flesh was replicating the old in a game, we were a chain of shadows who had always been on the stage with the same burden of love, hatred, desire, and violence.”
this book tears out my soul and fills it with fire. well done, ferrante.
— Sep 20, 2023 07:50AM
this book tears out my soul and fills it with fire. well done, ferrante.
rachel
is on page 150 of 418
some parts of this have me giggling and kicking my legs about socialism and motherhood while other parts have me raging about men and the state of the world
— Sep 14, 2023 02:16PM
