Iris Wijnen

“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

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.”
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy