Women in Sunlight Quotes

“Being older, being alone made those around you want to see you walk some walk they imagine appropriate. She didn’t feel obsolete in the least and was not going to abide others’ good, wrong intentions.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“You want to sign on for a luxury cruise down the River Styx?’ ” Everyone”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“a change needs to occur, someone will appear on the other side of the abyss and offer a hand. She”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“Camille crosses the room and turns down the hall to her bedroom. She spots a bracelet on the floor at”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“Ferrante”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“Elena Ferrante”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“Immortality, she’d always thought, is how you live on in the memories of those left.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“Travel is a journey into one’s own ignorance.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“The whole of everything is never told. (Henry James.)”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell (Virgil, Aeneid).”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“The air is full of sounds; the sky of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered with hints…So wrote Emerson and he is right. The world”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“One pleasure of being old, I realize, is that you’re free. Beyond caring what the neighbors might think.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“Used to have a pet turtle named George.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“ongoing drama of life in a small town.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“At the outdoor tables, the women turn their faces to the midmorning sunlight. They forget about exposure and skin cancer and just bask in the warmth, consulting their lists and staring at windows, a balcony still dripping with pink geraniums, shiny paving stones, and people going about their daily lives. They feel they are walk-ons in a play and, of course, they are, the”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“And how orderly the kitchen is.” “My secret weapon: clean up as you go.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight

“Where this story stops, they look into a mirror reflecting a mirror where the story begins and reflects a mirror where the story continues.”
― Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight