Quotes by Frances Mayes

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American writer

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“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow...”

— Frances Mayes

biography frances-mayes georgia south

“Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.”

— Frances Mayes

beauty inspiration

“What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.”

— Frances Mayes

choice relationship

“It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.”

— Frances Mayes

travel travel-writing

“He's already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I'd like to run off with, if I already hadn't.”

— Frances Mayes

italy love love-at-first-sight love-quotes

“Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.”

— Frances Mayes

community