The Sicilian Inheritance Quotes

“It is more a way of life, a spirit, a story we pass down, a way of reminding ourselves that the only way for a woman to survive in this world is to help other women.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“Few things in life are as fundamentally satisfying as good, quick sex followed by a meal of mostly salty cheese.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“and I love it, how the women helped one another, protected one another, found secret ways to cooperate.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“Cu picca parrau mai si pintiu. Those who speak little never have regrets.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“turned”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“When you've stepped in the shit you've got no choice but to keep walking until you get home to clean yourself up.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“Since becoming a mother, I barely had time to remember all the things I once wanted, all the lived I hoped to lead, but sometimes the desire all flooded back and I felt a small death.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“Non solcare la fronte. Stringerai il tuo buco del culo.” Don’t furrow your brow. You’ll clench your asshole. No one wants to walk around with a clenched asshole.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“I hid, lied, and disappeared to create this marvel, this brilliant, educated, independent woman singing alone in her car in front of a house that she owned, a woman beholden to no man.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“What happens when a woman is left alone to her own devices, how quickly she loses her honor. Finding her diary was like a gift to me, a reminder of the importance of the work that I do, the importance of women writing their own histories and legacies.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“And a final toast. It is on friends that one depends to get along in life.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“who wanted more than the world was willing to give to her. She found a way to live on her own terms.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“A man who could navigate a grocery store on his own without a shopping list would never know how truly sexy he was.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“It is on friends that one depends to get along in life.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“With her everything was either insanely beautiful or a terrible disaster”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance