"The people who are truly important to us, the people we’ve allowed to break us open inside, do not..."

“The people who are truly important to us, the people we’ve allowed to break us open inside, do not stop questioning us, obsessing us, pursuing us, and, if necessary, guiding us, even if they die, or grow distant, or if we’ve quarrelled.”

- from writing fragments of Elena Ferrante excerpted in The New Yorker (via skeery)