Sobeida Brito

“Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.”
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

“Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.”
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

“Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.”
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

“We were given one country and we've set up in another.”
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy