L'estate fredda Quotes

“One day at a time. He had also added that it’s a good rule not to take anything personally. We think that everything revolves around us: both what other people do and what they don’t do. It’s almost never true. Things happen and that’s it; most other people are uninterested in us, for good or ill.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, The Cold Summer

“The problem is that we like to control everything: a stupid, pointless, unhealthy idea. We need to have the opposite attitude, accept the fact that nobody really has any control over his or her own life: that was what the barman Nicola, from the Caffè Bohème, had said to him once.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, The Cold Summer

“Forse questa è filosofia a buon mercato, ma io credo che certi lavori dovrebbero essere fatti da quelli che non si sentono adatti [...]. Sentirsi un po' fuori posto aiuta, rende più vigili.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, L'estate fredda

“Il confine che separa i matti dai normali ci sembra netto, consistente, difficile da valicare. Invece è sottilissimo e in alcuni punti - in alcuni momenti - sfuma senza che ce ne accorgiamo. Ci troviamo nel territorio dei pazzi senza capire com'è successo - e del resto i pazzi lo sanno di essere da quelle parti?”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, L'estate fredda

“He merely added that often you don’t do what you would have liked to do in life, but that what you’d like to do isn’t necessarily what you would be good at doing. Which, needless to say, is true.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, The Cold Summer