Marlena De Blasi Quotes

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

We're all who we are endlessly.

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.