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“Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
“Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.”
― La luce sugli oceani
― La luce sugli oceani
“If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest.”
― The Moonflower Vine
― The Moonflower Vine
“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
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