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“Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books, of course.”
― Michelle Lovric, The Undrowned Child

“This is going to be a little uncomfortable”
― Michelle Lovric

“When the waiter brought the cheese-board, there was a large carrot carved in the shape of a mermaid sitting between the Dolcelatte and the Pecorino. Teo could have sworn that the carrot-mermaid flexed her tail and plunged her little hand inside a smelly Gorgonzola. 'Tyromancy, ye know,' remarked the mermaid. 'The Ancient Art of Divination by Cheese.' Then she pulled her tiny hand out and inspected the green cheese-mold on her tiny fingers. 'Lackaday!' she moaned. 'Stinking! It goes poorly for Venice and Teodora, it do!”
― Michelle Lovric, The Undrowned Child

“Fair and unfair are for children”
― Michelle Lovric, The Undrowned Child

“Family is family," sighed the gondolier.
"Family is everything," declared Marta Gasperin”
― Michelle Lovric, The Undrowned Child

“You need not hate them, for that hurts you too,' she explained. 'It is sufficient to laugh at them.”
― Michelle Lovric, The Book of Human Skin

“I have extracted some joy from them, after all, because I have relived my life, in the memories. The second time around you can savour in your mouth the really good times and you can spit out the bad times, with the knowledge that better times succeeded them. Perhaps this second life was better than the first one, because I can enjoy the laughter a second time, and I no longer feel the pains.”
― Michelle Lovric, Carnevale

“Estou manchado com esplendor corrupto, sou um código para segredos obscuros, sou um ser à parte, fui gerado na decadência, e vivo sobre a água. Sou o mais diferente possível de ti, e no entanto não sou propriamente um turco ou um peixe" Casanova”
― Michelle Lovric, Carnaval em Veneza

“Women", he used to say, "are like a book. You being with the title page. If that is not interesting, then you will not desire to read further. In fact, interesting is better than beautiful. A beautiful title page may attract your attention, but if it's not interesting, you will not continue with it.”
― Michelle Lovric, Carnevale

“Love makes the time pass,
but time makes love pass, too.”
― Michelle Lovric, Carnevale

“Guilt is a gorgeous girl but nobody wants her.”
― Michelle Lovric, Carnevale