Elena Ferrante Quotes
She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face.
Quotes to Explore
-
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
-
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
-
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
-
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
-
Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
-
Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
-
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
-
And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
-
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
-
Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
-
Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
-
I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
-
Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?
-
If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...
-
I'm a real woman with a real heart and I have to live with a beautiful body and a pretty face which is not nearly as easy as it sounds.
-
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
-
Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.
-
I know how to win big matches.
-
'I don’t appreciate the suggestion that I’m acting irrationally,' he said.'Then don’t act irrationally,' Jane said, 'because there will be consequences.'
-
I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
-
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
-
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
-
She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face.
