Quotes From "The Lost Daughter" By Elena Ferrante

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A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein. Elena Ferrante
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The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand. Elena Ferrante
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She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface Diane Chamberlain