"The Story of a New Name" Quotes
The Story of a New Name follows the evolving friendship and rivalry between two women as they navigate love, ambition, and societal expectations in 1950s Naples.
fiction | 471 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence.
I needed the city, the streets, to feel that I was living.
I no longer knew what I was doing, I was stuck in a web of lies.
The illusion of a world that would crumble at the first touch.
I had to cry over the past, I had to cry out all my love for him.
A moment of extreme frailty in which I had to hold tight to the railing.
She was a slim, tough, hot, sharp girl.
It was better not to believe in anything than to believe in something that turned out to be wrong.
I was no longer a girl. I was a woman and my suffering was a woman's.
I no longer had any doubts: I could live without Lila, I wanted to live without her.
