The Invitation

by Lucy Foley

This is Rome, is Italy, all over: the modern and the timeless coexisting in uneasy, spectacular conjunction.

There is fear, but here is something I’ve learned: fear is an exhausting thing, and life goes on around it.

‘Things happen. And they happen whether or not we’re there to influence them. And we can either let them eat away at us, and destroy us. Or we can go on living. Sometimes that is braver.’