I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn’t excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
– Elena Ferrante
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- Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. – Elena Ferrante
- I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman. – Elena Ferrante
- Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity. – Elena Ferrante
- Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. – Elena Ferrante
- Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. – Elena Ferrante
- The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can’t understand. – Elena Ferrante
- …maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved. – Elena Ferrante
- Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. – Elena Ferrante
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- Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. – Elena Ferrante
- I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. – Jennifer Donnelly
- Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress. – LA Serrt
- A man touched me:Â his hand… my thigh.I touched him too:Â my fist… his jaw. – Joseph GordonLevitt
- What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important. – Hemanta Bhatt
- You can’t admit to someone else what you’re too damn afraid to admit to yourself. – Beth Lewis
- If your actions don’t excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you’re doing it wrong. – Peprah Boasiako
- People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war – Robert Black
- Sticks and Stones may break my bones,but whips and chains excite me.So throw me down, tie me up,and show me how you like me. – Skye Eagleday
- …Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic… – John Geddes
- Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you. – Lauren Lola
- The outward manifestation of greatness is that we excite devotion and love in our work. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Mark it. The success of people may excite you. But the challenges they went through to achieve it will annoy you. – Israelmore Ayivor
- She was ugly, was all they’d told her. But she didn’t find them beautiful, so what did it matter? – Lila Bowen
- Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn’t have to fit anyone else’s shape. – Lila Bowen
- He’s an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I’ve slept with. – Lila Shaw
- I’m going to own your body, Lila, because you f*cking own mine. – Stephanie Witter
- Sex or sleep? What will it be, Lila? – Stephanie Witter
- Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron’s words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch. – VE Schwab
- A sudden intake of breath escaped her as soon as his lips touched the backs of her fingers. His rose birthmark tingled as if awakened. – Lia Davis
- As soon as my lips touched hers, something happened… My chest tightened so much that it hurt, and I almost couldn’t breathe. – Mako Delmar – Heidi Peltier
- Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry. – Akshay Vasu
- Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. – R Scott Bakker
- In life, I have learnt that the more I learnt about life, the sadder I became and the sadder I became the desire to learn about life increased. – Manoj Vaz
- As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died. – SA Tawks
- God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching. – Billy Graham
- As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. – Arthur C Clarke
- making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath. – Amy Harmon