"Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay" Quotes
The friendship between two women is tested as they navigate love, ambition, and social change in post-war Italy.
fiction | 418 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
But I also felt the weight of the inevitable. The years pass, and we drop our old dreams until they shatter on the ground.
We were two women, one inside the other. I was she, and she was I.
The things we experienced at that time fill me with tenderness, and with horror.
I was so tense that I felt I was being pulled apart, by one hand and then the other.
It was as if I were a vessel filled with all the words I had never said.
I felt that I was at the mercy of a story that was not mine.
I wanted the future to be different from the past, I wanted to be different from what I had been.
The idea that the world could be better, that people could be better, was, and is, a great illusion.
She was the only person I had ever known who could understand me.
I was aware of my power, and I was afraid that it would slip away from me.
