• He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

    Elena Ferrante: He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
    Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.3, Penguin