An Italian Affair Quotes

“It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“Human archetypes — the worried man, the chatterbox, the laughing old woman, the conniving youth.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“Naples isn't so much the southernmost city in mainland Europe as the northernmost city in Africa.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“The Italians have that wonderful verb, raccontare, that means to tell a story.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair