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“You can call me a thief if you like, a thief of ceremonies”
― The Water Statues
― The Water Statues
“I've found it hard sometimes to turn my back on the natural call of the waves, and I don't envy the temperament of vultures or of stars. The blinds at my windows have been fluttering for fifty years.”
― The Water Statues
― The Water Statues
“Non-living things are not living, yet they live longer than the living.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Change wears my sister’s moccasins. He stays up late and wakes up early. He likes to come up quietly and kiss me on the back of the neck when I am at my drawing table. He wants to amuse people, and it hurts him when they yell at him. Change is very musical, but sometimes you must listen for a long time before you hear the pattern in his music.”
― The Book of Qualities
― The Book of Qualities
“There is beauty to the run-down buildings, the laundry strung high overhead, the rhythm and drawl of daily life here. There is beauty, too, in the old Mediterranean architecture, buildings left over from centuries ago, before Naples became what it is today. There is beauty in the discrepancy -- two things that seems oppositional, coming together.”
― One Italian Summer
― One Italian Summer
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