The Little Virtues
A source page for quotes linked to Natalia Ginzburg.
“This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here”
“I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.”
“And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.”
“My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.”
“I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.”
“Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.”
“You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials”