Passage
Writing is -

They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.
Elena Ferrante

For all the words that are missing.
For the broken hearted [nearly 'for the broken heating'! 🎃]. And - for all the rest.

Our Abandonment
our Atonement
Our Redemption song
The failure of words
The end of Times
The
Something for Nothing
Ow
The promise of something new.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.
Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.
Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.
Elena Ferrante
The intensity of longing.