A City For Lovers Quotes

“Catalina was not the only person I loved even then, nor love now, nor will love. That summer I spent in Granada especially was full of love for me. It appeared in brief, fleeting rushes, and disappeared with the dawn. And it came and stayed for longer times; love like lingering caresses that went on through long hot days and into the orange-blossom scented evenings, and continued in the warm starlit nights, and in the blue dawns that followed.”
― Yasmine Millett, A City For Lovers

“It was as though she had cast a spell over me, had intoxicated me with that kind of delicious intoxication that does not fade; had altered something in my being by exposing it to such beauty, by bringing it such pleasure; and when I saw her again in the hazy heat of the afternoon, I loved her, as I had loved her in the morning and love her still.”
― Yasmine Millett, A City For Lovers

“Is any artist, any writer, any photographer even, capable of capturing any but the basest representation of true passion, or true beauty, such as is found in the living world?”
― Yasmine Millett, A City For Lovers

“What would they think of my dreams if they knew them? Would they recognise through them something of themselves in me? Or would they instead see something distasteful, something alien; something that they could not, and had no desire to, understand?”
― Yasmine Millett, A City For Lovers

“The shutters of the houses across from me were closed, locking in whatever nighttime scenes lay beyond them; scenes of men and women, together and apart, sleeping, dreaming. And of what did they dream? I wondered. Of wealth? Of strange, exotic sights? Of dark and dangerous places? Of their ordinary, everyday lives? Did they dream of love and passion? Or of nothing at all?”
― Yasmine Millett, A City For Lovers