Lampedusa Quotes

“But it seemed to him the world was brighter, more intense, more alive than he had remembered. Colours were more vibrant, shimmering; the scents of ordinary things, wet pavement, bricks in sunlight, unripe peaches, felt layered and dizzyingly complex.”
― Steven Price, Lampedusa

“In the end, he told himself some days, there is only what is done and what is not done. That is a life, that is what remains behind... It did not matter what sort of men or women they had been in life... his inner self would be lost to time, as he himself would be lost.”
― Steven Price, Lampedusa

“Had Stendhal believed in eternity? He had written that a person, no”
― Steven Price, Lampedusa: A Novel