“You know what they say: Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“I imagined myself a bird, looking down on our city, the Grand Canal like a snake slithering through stone, the city on either side like two hands clasped in prayer”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“The next week passed in a haze of mourning, as thick and disorienting as the unrelenting fog that crept over the stones of Venice each morning.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“It was not in my nature to gossip, which put me at odds with most of my sisters at San Zaccaria, who twittered hearsay like so many flocks of birds.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
Marco’s 2025 Year in Books
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