The Days of Abandonment
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- Author: Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
- ASIN: B009CQSYYC
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B009CQSYYC
- Kindle link
Highlights
I felt certain that it wasn’t serious. 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. — location: 19
The girl, perhaps without even realizing it, and who knows for how long, had been assessing the power of her swaying body, her restless eyes, on my husband; and he looked at her as one looks from a gray area at a white wall struck by the sun. — location: 45
environment - this useful for england
I wanted to be different, I wanted to write stories about women with resources, — location: 176
spies, I thought, false friends, people who always side with those who enjoy themselves, happy and free, never with the unhappy. I knew it very well. — location: 261
How many women can’t give up the pretense of the childish voice. I had given it up immediately, at ten I was already searching for adult tonalities. Not even in moments of love had I ever sounded childish. A woman is a woman. — location: 1524
tisane of normality and repose for me. — location: 2065