My Brilliant Friend

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Roam capture metadata — Author: Elena Ferrante · Reading Status: Books Read · Source: https://medium.com/@kwharrison13/2018-in-books-part-ii-c4f812a37bd5 · Recommended By: Camden Harrison · Tags: #Books

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• A young girls mother in regards to her daughter’s ability to continue her Education – “We can’t pay for the lessons, but you can try to study by yourself and see if you pass the exam.’ I looked at her uncertainly. She was the same: lusterless hair, wandering eye, large nose, heavy body. She added, “Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.”
• “If you don’t try, nothing ever changes.”
• “When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of the cities.”
• “She told me that her brother, who at first had been skeptical about the possibility of making money with the shoes, had now begun to count on it too heavily, already he saw himself as the owner of the Cerullo shoe factory and didn’t want to go back to repairing shoes. This worried her, it was a side of Rino she didn’t know. He has always seemed to her only generously impetuous, sometimes aggressive, but not a braggart. Now, though, he posed as what he was not. He felt he was close to wealth. A boss.” #greed #Pride
• “I kept on day after day, committed to asserting, with increasing thoroughness, to the teachers, to my classmates, to myself my application and diligence. But inside I felt a growing sense of solitude, I felt I was learning without energy.” #Education
• “However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.”
• “What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me. What signs did I carry, what fate?”
• “The beautiful mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn’t find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon faded and it will be as if she had never had it.’ It was the regret, as if the teacher was realizing that something of Lila had been ruined because she, as a teacher, hadn’t protected and nurtured it well.”