[a.h., 2004]

"this workbook is kind of a catharsis, because writing doesn't go on turning around like reflections on facts usually do"

"questo quaderno è una sorta di catarsi, perché la scrittura non continua a girare in tondo come le riflessioni sugli avvenimenti"

(from Angel Puss, by Colleen McCoullogh, 2004, Australia)

[vr, 2008]

"è molto piacevole ascoltarlo parlare, anche se quello che racconta ti è del tutto indifferente, perché ti parla davvero, si rivolge a te (...) ...questo modo di fare dà all'altro la sensazione di esserci"

"listening to him is a true pleasure, even though you're not interested at all in what is told, because he really speaks to you, addressing to you (...) ...this way of acting gives to the other person the feeling to really be there"

(from L'Elégance Du Hérisson, by Muriel Barbery, 2006, Paris)

[o.b., 2004]

"...he drove (...) until he found coffee. he thought that traveling alone was like being in the therapy - the things you found out about yourself"

(from Sportsman, in Collected Stories, by Amy Hempel, 2007, USA)

[essenza, 2008]

"ebbene TUTTO è storia, charles... assolutamente tutto, e per tutti noi... l'unico neo è che si trova raramente qualcuno che le ascolti"

"well, everything is story, charles... absolutely everything, and for all of us... the only trouble is that you can hardly find someone listening to them"

(from L'età dei sogni, 2008, France, by Anna Gavalda)

[folletto, 2008]

"it's hard to know why grown people get so angry over little things like dampers. when i'm a man i won't go around thumping small children over dampers or anything else"

(from Angela's Ashes, 1996, USA, by Frank McCourt)

[sensualità, 2004]

"that's what the whole goddamned thing is: you got to commit yourself to the life you picked. and you picked it - the most people don't even do that. you're smart and you're young and you've got, like i said before, talent"

(from Fever Pitch, 1992, UK, by Nick Hornby)

[fashion zombie me, 2009]

"viaggerai attraverso la valle del rifiuto, sosterai nella terra delle nebbie mattutine. e troverai la tua casa, anche se non sarà dove l'avevi lasciata"

"you'll cross the valley of the reject, you'll stand in the land of morning fog. and you'll find your home, although it won't be where you had left it"

from Starter Life