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“Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign. ”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“We were given one country and we've set up in another.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate. ”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Bianca’s 2025 Year in Books
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