Maria

“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. ”
― Frances Mayes, 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.”
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

“As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.”
― Frances Mayes, A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

“Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida