A Place in the Sun Quotes

“I knew it was loads easier to crumble under the weight of grief than it was to stand up with it on your back, but every day you carry it forward you get stronger and stronger, and eventually it doesn’t feel as heavy as it once did.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“Georgie, have you gone insane?”
I smiled. “No, brother. All is well.”
“Then why on Earth are you in Italy?”
“To find love, of course.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“You should know I never intended to fall in love again. I never imagined I’d have a reason to move on, and when you came along, I wasn’t prepared. I didn’t know how to handle you. You were… a lot to take in at once. I tried to keep my wall up, but you blew right past it.”
She grinned.
“Tramontana.” Her Italian accent had improved dramatically.
“Exactly.” I leaned forward and cupped her cheek, stroking my thumb across her skin. “You’re the woman I love now, Georgie. The only woman.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“When she smiled, the world smiled with her, and more than once, I found myself wishing I was the man she deserved to be with, the one she had come to Italy to find.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“Oh my Liam Neeson. I've been taken!”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“I stood in the center of the Pantheon under the massive oculus, boiling. It was noon and the sun was right overhead, blinding everyone in the room.
“Not incredibly practical to cut a hole in the roof if you ask me,” I deadpanned to the ten-year-old beside me.
She sighed heavily and rolled her eyes, walking away with Architecture of the Italian Renaissance shoved underneath her arm. Very cultured, these kids today.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“I spun a globe in our estate’s library and promised myself I’d travel to whichever country my finger landed on. The globe’s colors had blended together in a mess of blue and green and then I’d dropped my finger, abruptly stopping its rotation.
Syria.
Er, right. Minor hiccup.
I spun again and voila!
Italy!”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“The unflinching lovebirds disappeared inside the Colosseum and I was left with my pastry once again. It’s just me and you, carbs.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“Italians all seemed to believe that a few drinks and a good meal would cure any ill. Fat chance.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“Our lips melted together as he kissed me. Hard. Aggressive. Impatient. If kisses could kill, ours would have.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“There’s a difference between losing a loved one and losing a person you’re in love with. To be in love with someone is to live inside them. Allie’s breaths were my own and when she drew her last one, I was the one left gulping for air. I hadn’t breathed deeply in five years.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“His words weren’t enough; when your heart is set on love, anything less seems paltry.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“Italian man had a girlfriend. The good ones always do.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“To still pine for a man who’d told me time and time again that he didn’t fancy me like that. All my life I’d imagined myself a strong woman. I’d never let a man rule my life, had always been the one to walk away. I kept myself at a cool distance, and now suddenly I was more than happy to take any scraps Gianluca could spare, like a hungry stray.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“He wasn’t meant to be my forever, but forever was a long way away.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“And what if it’s too late? What if I’m already half in love with him?”

“Be thankful for the half that’s not. As for the half that is…I suppose I should have brought more wine.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“There’s a difference between losing a loved one and losing a person you’re in love with. To be in love with someone is to live inside them.”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“Georgie was more than any man could hope for in life. To have her love and attention was like standing beneath the scorching sun on a summer day: suffocating and sustaining all at once”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun

“I tossed myself back on my bed and stared up at the ceiling. I wanted to hate him. I wanted to call him a selfish cow and go on about how he’d led me on and forced me to fall for him, but the words felt hollow. He was”
― R.S. Grey, A Place in the Sun