Ferrante Books Quotes & Sayings

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published. — Elena Ferrante

Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina. — Elena Ferrante

Now you must close your eyes. Yes, that is it. Selinda, you, too. Good. Good. Bring in the dark that I may teach you to breathe. For it is breath that is behind words. And words that are the shapers of knowledge. And knowledge that is the base of understanding. And understanding, the link between sister and sister." And — Jane Yolen

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. — Chinua Achebe

That which you term "moderation", I call "mediocrity — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's amazing, coconut oil. I use it as a moisturizer. I put it in my hair when I want a kind of greasy look. I take off my makeup with it. I put a little bit in my coffee. I have coconut oil with everything. — Lykke Li

Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake. — Elena Ferrante

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls. — Al Franken

When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology. — John Allen Paulos

Antonio's fixation was always the same: Sarratore's son {Nino}. He was afraid that I would talk to him, even that I would see him {at school}. Naturally, to prevent him from suffering, I concealed the fact that I ran into Nino entering school, coming out, in the corridors. Nothing particularly happened, at most we exchanged a nod of greeting and went on our way: I could have talked to my boyfriend about it without any problems if he had been a reasonable person. But Antonio was not reasonable and in truth I wasn't either. Although Nino gave me no encouragement, a mere glimpse of him left me distracted during class. His presence a few classrooms away - real, alive, better educated than the professors, and courageous, and disobedient - drained meaning from the teachers' lectures, the pages of books, the plans for marriage, the gas pump on the Stradonr. — Elena Ferrante

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. — Robert Andrews Millikan

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. — Elena Ferrante

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people. — Cecily Strong

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. — Elena Ferrante

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. 2Co6.18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. — Anonymous

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living. — Elena Ferrante

I felt that fear in me could not put down roots, and even the lava, the fiery stream of melting matter settled in my mind in orderly sentences, a pavement of black stones like the streets of Naples, where I was always and no matter what at the center. Everything that struck me
my studies, books, Franco, Pietro, the children, Nino, the earthquake
would pass, and I, whatever I among those I was accumulating, I would remain firm. 179 — Elena Ferrante

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts. — Euripides

Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity. — Ted Dekker