“It was Don Paolo's birthday and all the people of the village were gathered in the piazza to celebrate him. The band… — Marlena De Blasi Birthday party Copy Share Image
“They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts," he says,… — Marlena De Blasi Art Copy Share Image
We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a… — Marlena De Blasi Bigs Copy Share Image
“You know I've always wanted someone to sing to me, but now I know that what I want more is to sing… — Marlena De Blasi Romance Copy Share Image
“I have never before gathered eggs from under a hen. Fernando has never before seen a hen. We bend low into the… — Marlena de Blasi Eggs Copy Share Image
“Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn, young, how to pick them up, how to work them against… — Marlena de Blasi Life Copy Share Image
“Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.” — Marlena De Blasi Born Copy Share Image
“Rather than being love-blinded, it is in love that I can see, really see.” — Marlena De Blasi Love Copy Share Image
most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another. — Marlena De Blasi Connected Copy Share Image
Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the… — Marlena De Blasi Bows Copy Share Image
“She's a woman. Like a chameleon does, a woman quietly blends into all the parts of her life. Sometimes you can hardly… — Marlena De Blasi Destiny Copy Share Image
“You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is… — Marlena De Blasi Anger Copy Share Image
“Everything about this evening is both exquisite and bewildering and I can't decide if I want to go on with this dream… — Marlena De Blasi Dreams Copy Share Image
“Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a… — Marlena De Blasi Life Copy Share Image
Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed… — Marlena De Blasi Arrogance Copy Share Image
How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow. — Marlena De Blasi April Copy Share Image
I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her… — Marlena De Blasi Almonds Copy Share Image
Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against… — Marlena De Blasi Demon Copy Share Image
“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion… — Marlena De Blasi Innocence Copy Share Image
Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink… — Marlena De Blasi Beauty Copy Share Image
Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have… — Marlena De Blasi Born Copy Share Image
Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare… — Marlena De Blasi Beginners Copy Share Image
“Even in these first days together, it is very clear that this feeling of mine for the stranger has trumped all the… — Marlena De Blasi Adventures Copy Share Image
“The villagers and the farmers here tell the story of Demeter and Persephone with all the fresh wonder and anguish of a… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
