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Top 30 Carolina De Robertis Quotes (2025 Update)

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Why did life put so much inside a woman and then keep her confined to smallness?”

1. “Why did life put so much inside a woman and then keep her confined to smallness?”

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Carolina De Robertis Quote: “It is love that pushes us to face the journey toward justice without flinching, love that impels us to keep going on the long, hard road, love that provides the moral compass and the map.”

2. “It is love that pushes us to face the journey toward justice without flinching, love that impels us to keep going on the long, hard road, love that provides the moral compass and the map.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Life was full of lost worlds. You could travel miles of twisting roads and think you’re far away from all you know and suddenly stumble on the scrap of one.”

3. “Life was full of lost worlds. You could travel miles of twisting roads and think you’re far away from all you know and suddenly stumble on the scrap of one.”

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Carolina De Robertis Quote: “How deeply she saw, Malena. Suddenly it seemed to Flaca that Malena hid an ocean inside her, depths never spoken, full of slippery wakeful things.”

4. “How deeply she saw, Malena. Suddenly it seemed to Flaca that Malena hid an ocean inside her, depths never spoken, full of slippery wakeful things.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “As if music could be crushed like a condemned building or a stubborn anarchist. But it could not. It always rose and returned, vital, immense, fortified by new instruments, new shapes, new musicians crazy enough to give their lives to it like underground, unsanctioned priests.”

5. “As if music could be crushed like a condemned building or a stubborn anarchist. But it could not. It always rose and returned, vital, immense, fortified by new instruments, new shapes, new musicians crazy enough to give their lives to it like underground, unsanctioned priests.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Suffering has no measure. There are no scales to weigh it. There is only sorrow after sorrow.”

6. “Suffering has no measure. There are no scales to weigh it. There is only sorrow after sorrow.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Music, arrow to pierce all barriers. Music, the great equalizer. Music, invader of centuries. Nectar of demons, whiskey flask of God.”

7. “Music, arrow to pierce all barriers. Music, the great equalizer. Music, invader of centuries. Nectar of demons, whiskey flask of God.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “And isn’t that strange, she thought, the way one city can swirl inside another; the way you can be in one country yet carry another country in your skin; the way a place is changed by whoever comes to it, the way silt invades the body of a river.”

8. “And isn’t that strange, she thought, the way one city can swirl inside another; the way you can be in one country yet carry another country in your skin; the way a place is changed by whoever comes to it, the way silt invades the body of a river.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “She wondered why no one saw through her disguise. Perhaps people could see only what they expected, what fit inside their vision, as if human vision came in precut shapes more narrow than the world itself, and this allowed her to hide in plain sight.”

9. “She wondered why no one saw through her disguise. Perhaps people could see only what they expected, what fit inside their vision, as if human vision came in precut shapes more narrow than the world itself, and this allowed her to hide in plain sight.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Husbands. People crazy enough to think that washing their boxers and cooking their food and listening to their boring rants for the rest of your life would make you happy.”

10. “Husbands. People crazy enough to think that washing their boxers and cooking their food and listening to their boring rants for the rest of your life would make you happy.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected.”

11. “But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “She didn’t mind the sacrifice. It seemed enough for a life, to give yourself to music the way nuns give themselves to God. To vow. To surrender. Only music, after all, made life bearable. Only with music did she feel – what was it? Free? Happy? No, it was something else. Awake.”

12. “She didn’t mind the sacrifice. It seemed enough for a life, to give yourself to music the way nuns give themselves to God. To vow. To surrender. Only music, after all, made life bearable. Only with music did she feel – what was it? Free? Happy? No, it was something else. Awake.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “I wondered whether I had gone insane. If so, I thought, then this is what it feels like; I would never have guessed the world would still appear so sharp and vivid, the streets the same, the clouds the same, nothing different except your mind has come unhinged, its cogs whirling loose and wild and hazardous.”

13. “I wondered whether I had gone insane. If so, I thought, then this is what it feels like; I would never have guessed the world would still appear so sharp and vivid, the streets the same, the clouds the same, nothing different except your mind has come unhinged, its cogs whirling loose and wild and hazardous.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “She hadn’t known air could taste like this, so wide, so open. Her body a welcome. Skin awake. The world was more than she had known, even if only for this instant, even if only in this place. She let her lips part and the breeze glided into her mouth, fresh on her tongue, full of stars. How did so much brightness fit in the night sky? How could so much ocean fit inside her? Who was she in this place?”

14. “She hadn’t known air could taste like this, so wide, so open. Her body a welcome. Skin awake. The world was more than she had known, even if only for this instant, even if only in this place. She let her lips part and the breeze glided into her mouth, fresh on her tongue, full of stars. How did so much brightness fit in the night sky? How could so much ocean fit inside her? Who was she in this place?”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.”

15. “I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “A music born among children of slaves is like an orphan: it will never know its real parents, will never hear the full visceral story of its birth.”

16. “A music born among children of slaves is like an orphan: it will never know its real parents, will never hear the full visceral story of its birth.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn’t happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illusions of safety.”

17. “Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn’t happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illusions of safety.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “She’d seen her mother, her sisters, watched the way they wrapped their days around their men, the way it worked, a code she’d always known she’d avoid for her own life, who wanted it? what was the point? It wasn’t worth having a man no matter how much people mocked you for lacking one.”

18. “She’d seen her mother, her sisters, watched the way they wrapped their days around their men, the way it worked, a code she’d always known she’d avoid for her own life, who wanted it? what was the point? It wasn’t worth having a man no matter how much people mocked you for lacking one.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “It was her grandfather who’d told her the tale of this particular violin, over and over, as if the telling could stave off loss, as if the weight and scope of human history were not found in books or in those mythic universities in Rome and Naples that no one in their village had ever seen but, rather, were encoded in objects like this one, a violin touched by hundreds of hands, loved, used, stroked, pressed, made to outlive its owners, storing their secrets and lies.”

19. “It was her grandfather who’d told her the tale of this particular violin, over and over, as if the telling could stave off loss, as if the weight and scope of human history were not found in books or in those mythic universities in Rome and Naples that no one in their village had ever seen but, rather, were encoded in objects like this one, a violin touched by hundreds of hands, loved, used, stroked, pressed, made to outlive its owners, storing their secrets and lies.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “That’s what happens to melodies: they get lost in the air. Just like memories. And the body. Memories and melodies and the body dissolve after we die. A musical instrument is not like the body, not at all: like the soul, it carries on.”

20. “That’s what happens to melodies: they get lost in the air. Just like memories. And the body. Memories and melodies and the body dissolve after we die. A musical instrument is not like the body, not at all: like the soul, it carries on.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “I could have swallowed all the buildings in this city, could have swallowed anything, the sky, a corpse, a lie, a truth, the sea. I was starved for something that had no name.”

21. “I could have swallowed all the buildings in this city, could have swallowed anything, the sky, a corpse, a lie, a truth, the sea. I was starved for something that had no name.”

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Carolina De Robertis Quote: “It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman lifts another woman, and she in turn lifts the world.”

22. “It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman lifts another woman, and she in turn lifts the world.”

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Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Only later, as their bodies merged, would she feel Malena’s own hunger under the surface, waiting, quiet, like a creature unsuited to the hunt. It was enough and a relief to Romina. It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman holds another woman, and she in turn lifts the world.”

23. “Only later, as their bodies merged, would she feel Malena’s own hunger under the surface, waiting, quiet, like a creature unsuited to the hunt. It was enough and a relief to Romina. It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman holds another woman, and she in turn lifts the world.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “He was not so much surprised as he was struck by how impossible it was to ever gauge how a person existed in their skin, the way the world pressed down on them, the exact shape and weight of the pressing.”

24. “He was not so much surprised as he was struck by how impossible it was to ever gauge how a person existed in their skin, the way the world pressed down on them, the exact shape and weight of the pressing.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “That’s how it is, she thought; we carry worlds inside ourselves and long to taste the worlds of others, we stare and prod and sip and can’t inhabit.”

25. “That’s how it is, she thought; we carry worlds inside ourselves and long to taste the worlds of others, we stare and prod and sip and can’t inhabit.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “She hovered in the space between fears.”

26. “She hovered in the space between fears.”

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Carolina De Robertis Quote: “Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands.”

27. “Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “He’d heard people say talk was cheap, but that wasn’t true. Talk was magic, it turned the world, it was power when you knew how to fuse it with what mattered and pull your actions taut inside it like arrows.”

28. “He’d heard people say talk was cheap, but that wasn’t true. Talk was magic, it turned the world, it was power when you knew how to fuse it with what mattered and pull your actions taut inside it like arrows.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “So this is what joy does to a woman, she thought: it makes you hungry, makes you long to live and live, makes you guard the secret at any cost, wakes the animal inside and makes her growl to break the heavens into pieces.”

29. “So this is what joy does to a woman, she thought: it makes you hungry, makes you long to live and live, makes you guard the secret at any cost, wakes the animal inside and makes her growl to break the heavens into pieces.”

— Carolina De Robertis

Carolina De Robertis Quote: “The heart of things, you touch it when you speak; somehow you shake and shift the flesh reality is made of.”

30. “The heart of things, you touch it when you speak; somehow you shake and shift the flesh reality is made of.”

— Carolina De Robertis

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