Elena Ferrante Quotes

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.

Elena Ferrante

• Desire
• Emotional
• Protect
• Grew Up

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• I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Desire
  • Emotional
  • Protect