It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is. - Peter S. Beagle

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

This world, that world, doesn't matter. You never make people to see what you see, hear, feel what you feel. Notes don't do it, words don't do it, paints, bronze, marble, nothing. All you can do, you maybe get it a little close, a little closer. But right, like you're talking? No.

He was only mildly startled that la strega was aware of his relationship with Giovanna: having lived most of his life in or near small southern villages, he would have been far more surprised if she had not.