Lorena Virzi

“[...] she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.”
― Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin

“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One