Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

2 quotes

"What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die."

Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated."

Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment