The Days Of Abandonment Quotes
"One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me."
"I spent the night thinking, desolate in the big double bed."
"He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books."
"I knew him well, I was aware that he was a man of quiet feelings."
"We talked about everything, we still liked to hug and kiss each other."
"Sometimes he asked him to go with her somewhere, or she would involve her daughter."
"I had quickly adapted, especially since mother and daughter immediately did everything they could to alleviate any discomfort."
"We accepted with pleasure; it was nice there, even if there was always the risk that mother and daughter would suddenly appear."
"But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us."
"He defended himself with a certain satisfaction, and we laughed about it together."
"I immediately understood that it wasn’t the mother I had to worry about but the daughter."
"I had learned to speak little and in a thoughtful manner, never to hurry."
"We spent long sleepless nights confronting one another calmly and in low voices."
"He had begun to chew in his usual methodical way, but suddenly something cracked in his mouth."
"I looked blankly at his stained mouth, as one looks at a slide projection."
"He stared at it in horror, then showed it to me, shrieking, beside himself."
"Don’t give in, I said to myself, don’t crash headlong."
"I saw the cover again in every detail. My French teacher had assigned it."
"I wanted to write stories full of breezes, of filtered rays where dust motes danced."
"I realized that what had pierced me was the sound of the cell phone."
"I feared above all my growing incapacity to stick to a thought."
"I felt occupied on two fronts: I had to keep hold of the reality of the facts while sidelining the flow of mental images and thoughts."
"He’s gone, you’re still here. You’ll no longer enjoy the gleam of his eyes, of his words, but so what?"
"I shook my head. Dimly in my mind was a question."
"I paid them and they left. I closed the door behind them and leaned against it."
"What sort of man was he? With what sort of individual had I lived for fifteen years?"
"I felt like a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping."
"We are occasions. We consummate life and lose it because in some long-ago time someone, in the desire to unload his cock inside us, was nice, chose us among women."
"I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent."
"I decided, enough pain. To the lips of their nocturnal happiness I would attach those of my revenge."
"Once he fucked me, now he fucks someone else, what claim do I have?"
"I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies."
"I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies."
"I didn’t know how to find answers to the question marks, every possible answer seemed absurd."
"Starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past."
"I was an obsolete wife, a cast-off body, my illness is only female life that has outlived its usefulness."
"We carry in our head until we die the living and the dead. The essential thing is to impose a balance."
"I wanted to see how pretty my Ilaria is, I had forgotten how pretty she is."
"Nothing, nothing of Mario possessed the same earthquake-like movement anymore."
"I shook myself, I felt the point of the paper cutter on the skin of my left arm."
"You have no responsibility other than that of being a very sensitive woman."
"Life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead."
"The essential thing was that the string, the weave that now supported me, should hold."