First impression Quote by Glenn Haybittle

“From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out.…

— Lev Grossman

“She felt excited for no particular reason, in anticipation of exactly what she wasn't sure. It was sort of like everything - the rumble…

— Christi Phillips

“Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Her smile turned to one of joy and something he could not quite define. “You really do love me.” “I do.” He couldn’t help…

— Elizabeth Elliott

“General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.”

— Henry Adams

He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people…

— Patricia Highsmith

“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty…

— Rachel Kushner

“We talked of it, of course, but I guess Florence got all she wanted out of one look at a place. She had the…

— Ford Madox Ford

“I remembered how is disheartening and dreadful when you're seeing it for the first time. I thought of my parents and the town where…

— Daniel Kine

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming…

— Chase Twichell

“I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy.”

— Maria Grazia Swan