37 Quotes About Florence

I’m considering keeping the shutters open, even if people are spying on me at night from the apartment across the street. Especially if they are spying on me. It makes me feel less alone. I have a mental camaraderie with that imaginary person and their imaginary gaze. I find myself performing myself for them and exaggerating my facial expressions so they can see me more clearly, like actors project their voices on stage. I’m miming myself.

Dante Alighieri wrote his first book in the prosimetrum genre – La Vita Nuova – in 14th century Florence. Since I’m compiling this collection – my first indie publication – in Florence, just blocks from Dante’s house, and since his book involves a lost love, and ‘A New Life,’ I thought it fitting to emulate this style in my own casual, intuitive fashion. My hope is that the juxtaposition of poems, journal entries, essays and prose will create a story; a memoir in anarchistic vignettes.

Maybe he would not run away after all, even if exposed to all her family's idiosyncrasies. [Carlina's biggest fear about Stefano]

Carlina felt as if sudden sunshine had filled the kitchen... [Carlina's reaction to Stefano Garini]

The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder]

The years pass so quickly now that I can't keep my mental image of myself up to date. [Mature Dotsy deals with her age]

She was shocked by how dirty Florence was.

She'd fallen for him. How stupid. Secretary falls in love with her boss. What a tepid thing to do.

Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act on whim