The Wine-Dark Sea Quotes

“…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, The Wine-Dark Sea

“The Sicilian language is the only one in Europe that has no future tense. The island’s bitter legacy of conquest and revolt seems to have stunted its inhabitants’ ability to conceive of a time outside this recurrent cycle. At”
― Leonardo Sciascia, The Wine-Dark Sea