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“To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.”
― 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
“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
“You know what they say: Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
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