“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
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Elena Ferrante 25
Italian writer 1943Related quotes
“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”
Source: The Dandelion Girl

“It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.”
“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”
"A Spell for Midnight"

Quoted in National Observer (Silver Spring, Maryland, March 1, 1965).
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