dan je lep onoliko koliko si lud

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

"She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society,but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up--but then one goes insane from giving up."

Oh gosh, Lila!! I'm genuinely nervous at having to tackle such a complex character with my silly answers aha. Ok, let's go (beware, spoilers of the last book):

Favorite thing about them: I really can't say it without sounding a bit saccarine, but she's so alive. A real living breathing person whose pictures could actually be found in some dusty photo album. I clearly remember the feeling of void everytime Lenù cuts ties with her and she disappears from the narrative.

Least favorite thing about them: I mean, it frustrates me that we'll never know where she's gone aha but also, like, that's the whole point, isn't it?

(not putting the three things in common/not in common because they'd be either too vague or extremely specific)

Favorite line: "Ognuno si racconta la vita come gli fa più comodo" ("everyone talks themselves into a life that suits them best"). Ouch. Also her whole recounting of don Achille's murder when she's a child, straight-up magical realism.

brOTP: I like the fondness between her and Rino as children, it's really moving

OTP: I mean, the obvious answer is Enzo, right?

....and of course I could have said Lenù for both of these. I still don't have a real opinion about what it's going on between them, I definitely should reread the books

nOTP: so while looking for the favorite picture I stumbled upon a fanvideo of her and Stefano. What the heck. Same goes for Marcello Solara.

Random headcanon: not really an headcanon, but I can't shake the feeling that she brought the dolls at Lenù's home by herself (maybe it's something that Lenù says in the book actually? I can't remember now)

Unpopular opinion: If I hear/read someone else say that she's bad and evil and Pietro was 100% right about her...

Song i associate with them: I stole it from you, actually! but Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands by Joan Baez

Favorite picture of them: the *iconic* self-portrait as pictured in the tv series

“I immediately recognized our dolls, that one after another, almost sixty years ago, had been launched, mine by Lila, Lila's by me, into a cellar of our neighborhood. It was them, it was Tina and Nu. The dolls that we had never recovered, although we had gone underground to look for them.

With the money that Don Aquiles gave us we bought Little Women, the novel that had led Lila to write The Blue Fairy, and me to become what I am today.

That's what she had done: she had deceived me, she had dragged me where she wanted.

Or maybe not.

Maybe those two dolls that had gone through more than half a century and had arrived in Turin just meant that she was all right and that she loved me.

That she had broken her limits and finally wanted to travel the world, no longer smaller than hers, living in old age according to a new truth, her life, that had been forbidden to her in her youth, and that she had forbidden herself.

Now that Lila has shown herself so clearly, I must resign myself to not seeing her again.”

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