Thought for the Day

What we were at the beginning is only a vague patch

of colour contemplated from the edge of what we have become.

~ Elena Ferrante

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Quoted from "Elena Ferrante: 'I loved that boy to the point where I felt close to fainting'" (First of Weekly Series), The Guardian, January 20, 2018

Elena Ferrante, Novelist, Author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), and Neapolitan Quartet* (Europa Editions, 2012-2015); Nonfiction Writer, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey; Children's Book Author, The Beach at Night

* The Neapolitan Quartet comprises My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child.