Status Updates From A Florence Diary

“florence definitely sprawls, and the cream houses with red roofs might easily be modern blocks of flats. it’s only when you are in it that it has such glamour and loveliness, and you see all the houses in all their delicious irregularity and overhanging eaves and decoratedness and tallness.”

“what i was after was not a shared experience, but the excitement of discovery. i was hungry for the thrill of being elsewhere.”

“i only gradually came to understand how impossible it is to exaggerate the importance of holidays, those two or three weeks every year when i escaped into what felt like real life.”

pg 30. so fitting for me to read while in florence. its very short so an easy breeze through but enjoying it