The Villa in Italy Quotes

“Eram pequenos nadas que faziam com que a vida valesse afinal a pena.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Podes viver a tua vida para agradar os outros e nunca te sentires completamente bem, totalmente viva, ou podes viver a vida que queres para agradar a ti própria.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Observou a doce ondulação das águas a rebentar na praia. Porque é que o mar sempre em movimento era tão calmante, tão infinitamente sedutor?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“You can live your life to please others, and will never be quite well, never be totally alive, or you can live the life you want, to please yourself,’ she’d said to Delia. Delia had been disbelieving, alarmed. ‘What shall I do if I don’t sing? It’s all I can do, and I love music.’ ‘Sing something entirely different,”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy: Escape to the Italian sun with this captivating, page-turning mystery

“It was the little nothings that made life worth living, in the end. Then”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“It only takes clear thinking and energy to change a life for the better, to set it off in a new direction.”’ ‘She”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Porque é que fazemos as coisas que fazemos? Porque é que damos tantas vezes cabo das nossas vidas fazendo coisas que na altura parecem fazer sentido apesar de uma vozinha nos murmorar ao ouvido que estamos a cometer um grande erro?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“because my grandma was certainly a looker”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy: Escape to the Italian sun with this captivating, page-turning mystery

“Biscotti,’ said Lucius. ‘Hard as bricks, break your teeth if you bite into them. You dip one in the wine — it’s a dessert wine, quite sweet — and let it soften. Then you eat it.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“next to the horse was an army lorry, symbol of war and a modern world that had far more violence in it than the gun-toting pioneers could have dreamt of.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Why is it that the nicest men always end up in the hands of ghastly women?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“It all goes into one’s brain in a kind of porridge, and then comes out in a thousand different shapes.’ Jessica”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“It is the eye and mind of the beholder that determines what we see and believe, not the object of our contemplation in itself.’ ‘I”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Modern sins are perhaps beyond the compass of the church.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“it is dangerous to the spirit and to our well-being to let our thoughts and memories wander unchecked, so they get the better of us.’ ‘Not”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“army.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Ben”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy: Escape to the Italian sun with this captivating, page-turning mystery

“Dante”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“what shovels we can find”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy