407 Quotes by Elena Ferrante

The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.

I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down. We.

Lila appeared in my life in first grade and immediately impressed me because she was very bad.

I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful.

When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn’t understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn’t.

Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me... I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

You can’t leave me here to hope, when in reality you’ve already decided everything.

Bugie, bugie, gli adulti le vietano, intanto ne dicono tante.

Stop it, who cares about this Dostoyevsky, who gives a damn about the Karamazovs.