Laura Fraser > Quotes

“It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“I am realizing that intention has a lot to do with how things turn out, and accomplishments don't always have to involve such a difficult personal fight or campaign. So, too, how you tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in.”
― Laura Fraser, All Over the Map

“The men in my life are always like the countries I visit: I fall in love briefly and then move on. I visit, regard the wonders, delve into the history, taste the cooking, peer into dark corners, feel a few moments of excitement and maybe ecstasy and bliss, and then, though I am often sad to leave - or stung that no one insists that I stay - I am on my way.”
― Laura Fraser, All Over the Map

“All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.”
― Laura Fraser, All Over the Map

“It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.”
― Laura Fraser, All Over the Map

“...I am realizing that intention has a lot to do with how things turn out, and accomplishments don't always have to involve such a difficult personal fight or even campaign. So,too, how you tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in. In a peaceful, patient town, surrounded by friends, I am losing the threads of my story that have to do with disappointment, with regret, with difficulties with men. I am happy for the wonderful men I have in my life, would be happy for a new love, and am happy either way. That is a kind of magical thinking that works”
― Laura Fraser, All Over the Map

“All of live is a celebration if you just find the right spot in the sun to take it all in”
― Laura Fraser, All Over the Map

“The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“So, too, how to tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in”
― Laura Fraser, All Over the Map

“All I knew was that there was a wine called Chianti, which came in bottles with little baskets,”
― Laura Fraser, The Risotto Guru: Adventures in Eating Italian

“Gorgeous' you say in English and he likes that word tasting it like wine.”
― Laura Fraser

“Human archetypes — the worried man, the chatterbox, the laughing old woman, the conniving youth.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“Nor can I pass over the Sardinian gnocchetti in its red meat sauce; someone’s grandmother spent all day on those,”
― Laura Fraser, The Risotto Guru: Adventures in Eating Italian

“the mother did something that neither Tim’s parents, WASPy sticklers for table manners, nor my parents, WASPy guilty eaters, would ever have done: she took more artichokes off her plate with her fingers and insisted I eat them, too. I did, to her relish, and mine.”
― Laura Fraser, The Risotto Guru: Adventures in Eating Italian

“Naples isn't so much the southernmost city in mainland Europe as the northernmost city in Africa.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“The Italians have that wonderful verb, raccontare, that means to tell a story.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair