Francesca Marciano Quotes

“Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)”

— Francesca Marciano

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

— Francesca Marciano

“I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.”

— Francesca Marciano

“Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“I can't say why some memories float and other sink.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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”

— Francesca Marciano

“[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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“Telling the truth can be a dirty job.”

— Francesca Marciano

“You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.”

— Francesca Marciano

“It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.”

— Francesca Marciano

“It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.”

— Francesca Marciano

“I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.”

— Francesca Marciano

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.

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.

— Francesca Marciano

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?

— Francesca Marciano

“Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“The nature of anything truly enchanting has to be as light as a whiff of air.”

— Francesca Marciano

“When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.”

— Francesca Marciano

“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.”

— Francesca Marciano

“No use crying over spilled milk.”

— Francesca Marciano