The Dry Heart Quotes

“I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

“I’m sick of being alone and in the dark, analysing my own thoughts.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

“My head was whirling with a medley of words: rat, cauliflower, bitch, accepting people for what they are, and killing oneself.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

“I thought how all of us are always trying to imagine what someone else is doing, eating our hearts out trying to find the truth and moving about in our own private worlds like a blind man who gropes for the walls and the various objects in a room.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

“There are times when you’re fed up with everything, but then the days and years sweep you along with them and you acquire some understanding. You understand that there’s some meaning to even the stupidest things, and you don’t take them as hard as you did before.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

“How easy life is, I thought, for women who are not afraid of a man. I stared for a long time at my face in the mirror. It had never been very pretty, and now it seemed to me that every trace of youth and freshness was gone.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart