“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
Elena Ferrante book The Days of Abandonment
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.”
Queenie, 1971.
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