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1 " The archaeologists who will come and blow away the ashes from our house will unearth only the metal parts of the sophisticated furnishings, and it will take them some time to reconstruct their original beauty; they will find very few objects and almost no embellishments, not even in Emanuele's room, which from year to year is being emptied of toys and colors, because everything that's important to him is now found in the circuits of a tablet. I wonder what would suggest to them that a couple and then a family had lived in those rooms and that they were happy together, at least for long stretches of time. "
― Paolo Giordano , Like Family
2 " Then Emanuele grew up, more quickly than we thought, and we found ourselves wanting him to grow up fast, not realizing that we would soon miss him as a little child. He was never quick enough, he was never responsible enough, his reasoning was never sufficiently thought out. Only with Mrs. A. did he allow himself to regress to the condition of the small child he still felt he was. She held him in her arms, rocking him for hours; she let him be capricious and repetitive in his expressions, and she attended to those things we thought he should already be doing on his own. (Yet didn’t Nora and I behave the same way with her, abandoning ourselves to her care?) "
3 " Death realigns roles according to a formal order of importance. "
4 " When a relationship is severed, it's best if it's severed cleanly and permanently. "
5 " Zakonska zveza brez jasno določenih vlog ji je bila tuja in mogoče je tudi to prispevalo h gotovosti, ki nama jo je vlivala njena prisotnost. Prek nje sva namreč okušala nekoliko banalno nostalgijo po zastarelem, preprostem vzorcu družine, v katerem ni bilo treba vsakemu biti vse hkrati - moški in ženska, razumski in čustven, popustljiv in strog, romantičen in pritlehen - vzorcu družine, drugačnem od današnjega, ki nam nalaga tako široko in neprepoznavno odgovornost, da se v vsakem primeru vedno izkažemo za pomanjkljive. "
