Quotes by Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

“There are people in my life who count more than playing soccer in Serie A”

“She had feared the worst, and even though at that very moment she would have liked to wring her neck, she was happy to learn that suicide was not one of the stupid things that Eve had in her repert...”

“I love everything about you. And Ive felt that way for such a long time that it could last forever.”

“Ive always liked you, from the first moment I saw you at the Pigafetta Stadium. He kept his distance because he wanted her too much. And ever since that day, I knew that you were in love with anoth...”

“Most people think that love doesnt stand the test of time that it is eternal only as long as it lasts but love is an unquenchable flame. It is only the fires of momentary desire that burn too fas...”

“This unrequited love business was driving him crazy. It was a feeling that took you over, mind, body, and soul. Worse than a drug that tore apart your flesh and spirit, and without which you simply...”

“But how can I let him just walk away with a smile on my face and a slap on his back when every cell in my body is tied painfully to him, and I cant breathe when I think of him being away from me?!”

“Matteo lived inside her like a memory that paradoxically stopped the pain and which she could never get enough of... because there was, and never would be, anything that was like him. Wherever she ...”

“She was afraid of giving in to that overwhelming, absolute, unconditional love, a love that had shown her the route to heaven, but which had also taught her how much one could suffer, to the point ...”

“The French poet Mallarm and, after him, Borges, claimed that everything in the world exists to end up in a book, and if thats true, and that even every man is a book, Federico was undoubtedly creat...”

“It's absurd how crazy love can make you......but even more absurd how stupid jealousy can make you!”

“Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core......”

“Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldnt be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.”

“I tried to hate you, to forgive you, all just to forget you, but I'm only capable of loving you. You're tattooed onto my skin, and the more I try to erase you, the deeper you sink in.”

“You two are bound to one another. You always have been and you can't run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.”

“But youre right about one thing: hes my best friend. I know him very well, and no matter what he said or did tonight, Ive never seen him act this way with another girl. No one, he repeated, except ...”

“Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA”

“He could no longer pretend not to have been brought to his knees by her blows, and he could no longer avoid the sentiments that his heart forced him to feel.”

“If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.”

“Everything around her was in a fog; the intense light that always shone in his aqua blue eyes was the only thing in focus, but it was suddenly unknown... different... almost embarrassing.”