And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls!
Charles Dickenserhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.
Jess WalterTag: america italy cowboys empires
The transgression of Adam and Eve was not in learning the difference between good and evil but in treating the knowledge they received as something that was, literally, internal to them-a food that could be seized, devoured, and controlled by the individual.
Michael RipsTag: italy
In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. “It’s a lazy man’s meal.", she always said. "What laggard expects to eat before doing any work?
Jess WalterYeah, take it from me. He may try to sell himself to you along with the company. And then there is Roberto, the CEO of our acquisition target. He also seems to be a bit of a flirt. Those two are like moths around a light bulb with you. Any idea how you would react if they both came after you?
Karynne SummarsTag: love italy glamour acquisition
I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here.”
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca.
Tag: love italy glamour lake-como villa
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
Donna LeonConfession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).
Mona RodriguezTag: historical-fiction fiction book immigration statue-of-liberty novel italy new-york prohibition wwi suffrage world-war-i women-s-rights 1920s 40-years-and-a-day 40-years-in-a-day best-historical-fiction cafe-society dianne-vigorito ellis-island forty-years-in-a-day hell-s-kitchen italian-american-book mona-marzano mona-rodriguez new-historical-fiction suffragist-movement top-fiction
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
Mona RodriguezTag: historical-fiction fiction book immigration statue-of-liberty novel italy new-york prohibition wwi suffrage world-war-i women-s-rights 1920s 40-years-and-a-day 40-years-in-a-day best-historical-fiction cafe-society dianne-vigorito ellis-island forty-years-in-a-day hell-s-kitchen italian-american-book mona-marzano mona-rodriguez new-historical-fiction suffragist-movement top-fiction
Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising?
Mona RodriguezTag: immigration statue-of-liberty italy prohibition wwi 1920s cafe-society ellis-island hell-s-kitchen suffragist-movement
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