Antonia and Her Daughters Quotes

“Nothing squandered, nothing cloaked.”
― Marlena De Blasi, Antonia and Her Daughters: Secrets, Love, Friendship and Family in Tuscany

“Festina lente. Make haste slowly.”
― Marlena De Blasi, Antonia and Her Daughters: Secrets, Love, Friendship and Family in Tuscany

“People who work alone know the beauty of solitude. The perhaps greater beauty of loneliness”
― Marlena De Blasi, Antonia and Her Daughters: Secrets, Love, Friendship and Family in Tuscany

“It's mostly readers of my books who come to be with us. The tours become an extension of the books. Guests want to see the places I write about. They want to be where we are. I guess they want also to feel what I feel. They want to step through a magic door.”
― Marlena De Blasi, Antonia and Her Daughters: Secrets, Love, Friendship and Family in Tuscany