Francesca Marciano Quotes

How can I explain this? 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. Your pit, your ties, your fear. you are lifted, you slowly rise like a hot-air balloon, and all you see is the space and the endless possibilities for losing yourself in it.

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.

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

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

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.

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

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.

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