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“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
“Venetian laws last but a week. They keep making new laws because no one follows the old ones…. Or enforces them.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“You know what they say: Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .”
― 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
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