
My Brilliant Friend

didn’t my passion grow in the warmth of hers?
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
Firm in what her mother’s relative was doing, firm in the pain, firm in silence as a statue is firm. A follower.
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
But I did it without conviction: I did many things in my life without conviction; I always felt slightly detached from my own actions. Lila,
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
“The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn’t find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.”
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
Instead, in her absence, after a slight hesitation I put myself in her place. Or, rather, I had made a place for her in
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
Life was like that, that’s all, we grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
there are no gestures, words, or sighs that do not contain the sum of all the crimes that human beings have committed and commit.
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
Rather, she wrote obscurely, good and evil are mixed together and reinforce each other in turn. Marcello, if you thought about it, was really a good arrangement, but the good tasted of the bad and the bad tasted of the good, it was a mixture that took your breath away.
Elena Ferrante • My Brilliant Friend
I displayed my successes as if they were my mother’s silver bracelet, and yet I didn’t know what to do with that virtuosity.