A Very Italian Christmas Quotes

“us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, A Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

“There is a kind of uniform monotony in the fate of man. Our lives unfold according to ancient, unchangeable laws, according to an invariable and ancient rhythm.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, A Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

“It was dead, really. It’s a place that needs to have a lot of life in it in order to be happy. It must be full of light and sounds and human and animal warmth, and then it’s all right.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, A Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

“Her heart that day was as delicate as the strings of a violin, and vibrated if it were merely touched.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, A Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

“in her heart, that confused shame, that opposition to thinking things not suitable for her—maybe those were the mistake, and not the hope of living.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, A Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time