John quoted The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection …
But that was the best time of my life, and only now that is has gone forever -- only now do I realize it.
— The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (Page 8)
Her internal exile with her husband in the town of Pizzoli lasted from 1940 to 1943. On their return to Rome he was arrested and imprisoned and died in February 1944.