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“Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“I can't say why some memories float and other sink.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.”
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“We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“[she felt] sorry for herself, for getting older, for being mortal, for all the music she still wanted to hear, the books she intended to read, the places she had meant to visit, the things she had promised herself she'd learn one day [...] and probably never would because time was beginning to feel like a fast express train that no longer stopped at all the stations.”
― The Other Language
― The Other Language
“I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed”
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
“How can I explain this? Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates?
You are lifted.
Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above. Your pit, your ties, your fear. you are lifted, you slowly rise like a hot-air balloon, and all you see is the space and the endless possibilities for losing yourself in it.”
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
You are lifted.
Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above. Your pit, your ties, your fear. you are lifted, you slowly rise like a hot-air balloon, and all you see is the space and the endless possibilities for losing yourself in it.”
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
“Telling the truth can be a dirty job.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“Passion - eventually it cools.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.”
― The Other Language
― The Other Language
“Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.”
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
“I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.”
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
― Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.”
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“Are you lovers?"
"Excuse me?"
"Do you mind my asking you?"
"Yes."
"It's off the record."
"Then why do you need to know?"
Daniel Moore smiled. A large, happy smile.
"Because I would like to ask you to dinner.”
― Casa Rossa
"Excuse me?"
"Do you mind my asking you?"
"Yes."
"It's off the record."
"Then why do you need to know?"
Daniel Moore smiled. A large, happy smile.
"Because I would like to ask you to dinner.”
― Casa Rossa
“What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.”
― The Other Language
― The Other Language
“Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.”
― Casa Rossa
― Casa Rossa
“Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.”
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