The City Diary

London, my happy place.

2017 > today

8+ years of measuring love

Lately


“Esistere è questo, pensai, un sussulto di gioia, una fitta di dolore, un piacere intenso, vene che pulsano sotto la pelle, non c’è nient’altro di vero da raccontare.”

Elena Ferrante

I giorni dell’abbandono

“You make me want to live. Not survive; not exist. Live.”

Sarah J. Maas

Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass)

“Things and people moved around me, taking positions in obscure hierarchies, participating in systems I didn’t know about and never would. A complex network of objects and concepts. You live through certain things before you understand them.”

Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

“Look at where you are. Look at where you started. Look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Phillipa Soo

That Would Be Enough