407 Quotes by Elena Ferrante

I mean that a party can’t be anything other than a distributor of favors in exchange for support, ideals are part of the furniture.

I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again.

There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.

We gazed at the constellations, praising the portentous architecture of the sky with trite formulas.

The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.

The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall.

How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they’re at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.