Never Again So Close Quotes

“Ease this knot, Lord. I beg You, make it all stop. Songs, stop playing. Poetry, stop reciting. Planes, stop flying. I implore You, put out this fire, snuff it out, before I lose my mind. It will never end. Never.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“start making yourself happy. To believe that others can make you happy is foolish.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“Often it’s the lure of happiness that makes us unhappy.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“But maybe that’s the first mistake: the rush to mix together, to make two into one. The eagerness to lose oneself in the other.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“accept the fact that wounds, some wounds, do not heal; that things, some things, don’t work out, and that not everyone is spared.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“Write like you can forget, write and forget. Hold an entire world in your palm then puff. Pierluigi Cappello”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“That is the foremost fundamental law: language has the power to create reality. When spoken, a thing exists.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“My name is Antonia. Names are important: when you name things, they exist.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“language has the power to create reality. When spoken, a thing exists.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“I might be a senile old fool, but I know that we cannot stop believing in life, in its possibilities, which are endless, in the obligation to remain human. And in love, which is something greater than us and always prevails; in the end that’s what remains,”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“It’s just that on nights like those, I felt that my love would be enough for both of us. I knew it wasn’t true, but I wanted to be stronger than the truth.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“And so Vittorio struck back. At times deliberately, at times blindly. But the more we hurt each other, the more evident our miseries, the tighter the knot that bound us.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“I was afraid of hurting her. She was so easy to hurt . . . ‘Believe me, Molly, I love you, I always will . . . as best I can . . . in my own way.’ My own way didn’t amount to much.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“That color of dawn in a room in Rome would remain the color of an unexpected joy that found me amazed and naked in the arms of a man I barely knew.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“Sometimes, in spite of everything, life opens up, it concedes. And even if it lasts only an hour or two, it lasts long enough to remind us that no, we should not die when we feel like dying.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“If you’ve ever had that feeling, you know it’s not sad: beginnings always end up being the best part.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“Home is far away, so you can be whatever you want to be, perhaps what you are.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“Vittorio entered my life that day, accompanied by a comment on his allure, and I don’t think I’ve ever forgiven him for it.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“hipster fashion of the moment. And he wore an earring, as if to say, “I have a position, but I’m not a conformist.” The men in the audience were slumped in their seats, legs crossed, arms condescendingly folded over their chests. Laura was taking notes, accompanying every word by nodding her head of thick, curly hair. What was his trick? His face revealed few expressions; from time to time he smiled briefly, the only movement on his tanned face. Still, those smiles lit it up, and this was probably not planned. Or maybe it was, because at regular intervals he would imperceptibly lean toward the audience, and the middle-aged women with Botoxed lips clung to their seats. He talked about a recent trip in a Ford Fiesta. “We’d meet at the bar in the piazza, Giovanni and Gabriele and I, and hold impromptu discussions inspired by Malvasia.” He gave us time to marvel over the fact that he did not have an Audi. “Giovanni Ascolti and Gabriele Galli, the founders of the publishing house Marea,” Laura whispered in my ear. “Oh.” Silence floated through the room when he closed his mouth. The seconds hung suspended between us and him, in midair, as if surprised to be there. But then Vittorio took off his glasses, smiled, said, “Thank you,” and time obeyed that smile and began to flow again. The audience applauded, and the seconds too returned to their place, in the ticking of the clocks. Well”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“things remain hidden until we know what to call them.”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“language has the power to create reality. When spoken, a thing exists.” Some”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close

“That is the foremost fundamental law: language has the power to create reality. When spoken, a thing exists.” Some”
― Claudia Serrano, Never Again So Close