Judith Works > Quotes

“...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both.”
― Judith Works, City of Illusions

“Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.”
― Judith Works, City of Illusions

“In the late afternoon we sat on a ledge and watched the sun set in the west and a full moon rise in the east, as they always have, no matter what lies beneath the light—whether more of the world’s horrors, the possibilities of peace, or my comfortable, well-fed life”
― Judith Works, Coins in the Fountain: A Midlife Escape to Rome

“The setting, so redolent of the past, always made me mindful of the continuity that so characterizes Italy and how I was part of that endless procession, pagan and Christian, rich and poor, native and foreign, who all shared in its eternal beauty”
― Judith Works, Coins in the Fountain: A Midlife Escape to Rome

“Reading about other people's delightful lives, however, only brought an unwelcome comparison.”
― Judith Works