## Metadata - Author: [[Elena Ferrante]] - Full Title: The Story of a New Name - Category: #books ## Highlights - Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, “That’s enough.” “Why?” “Because I’ve had it, it’s always the same story: inside something small there’s something even smaller that wants to leap out, and outside something large there’s always something larger that wants to keep it a prisoner. I’m going to cook.” ([Location 805](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B079MHCVG5&location=805)) - I observed her silently as she moved through the house; I was enraged by her capacity to travel through the most depressing labyrinths, holding on to the thread of her declaration of war without showing it. I thought of what her husband had told me, his words about the power that Lila held back like the spring of a dangerous device. I looked at her stomach and imagined that truly inside it, every day, every night, she was fighting a battle to destroy the life that Stefano wanted to insert there by force. ([Location 1298](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B079MHCVG5&location=1298))