Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend (2011)

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I remember the violet light of the courtyard, the smells of a warm spring evening.

Elena Ferrante

In that last year of elementary school, wealth became our obsession. We talked about it the way characters in novels talk about searching for treasure.

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In those middle school years many things changed right before our eyes, but day by day, so that they didn't seem to be real changes.

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There are microbes everywhere that make us sick and die. There are wars. There is a poverty that makes us all cruel. Every second something might happen that will cause you such suffering that you'll never have enough tears. And what are you doing? A theology course in which you struggle to understand what the Holy Spirit is? Forget it, it was the Devil who invented the world, not the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Elena Ferrante

Nowhere is it written that you can't do it.

Elena Ferrante