Francesca Marciano Quotes & Sayings

#1. I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.

#2. Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

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#3. Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.

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#4. Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

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#5. Are you lovers?"
"Excuse me?"
"Do you mind my asking you?"
"Yes."
"It's off the record."
"Then why do you need to know?"
Daniel Moore smiled. A large, happy smile.
"Because I would like to ask you to dinner.

Francesca Marciano

#6. No use crying over spilled milk.

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#7. I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.

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#8. You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.

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#9. You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.

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#10. Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

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#11. I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

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#12. These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.

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#13. I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

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#14. It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.

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#15. Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

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#16. When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.

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#17. I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed

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#18. Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.

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#19. When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.

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#20. You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.

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#21. It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

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#22. We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

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#23. It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.

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#24. What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?

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#25. A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.

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