But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then – I think today – did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.
-Elena Ferrante
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