"Every day, I watch for the old man with the flowers, and I wonder, was he born here? Did he love someone here? Did he…"

"I'd like to make an offer on the house. This is what I can pay, minus the work on the place, buckets, nails ... choco…"

"I still got it! I still got it! I still got it! — Thank God!"

"So I was now the owner of a villa whose lands it would take two oxen two days to plow. Owning neither an ox nor a plo…"

"What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can …"

"Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, v…"

"It's market day in Cortona — the piazza is an on-going party — and everyone is invited."

"In Italian, the literal translation of "to give birth" — "dare alla luce" — is: "to give to the light"."

"The fact that I'm trying to speak Polish in Italy is one of the many surprises around here."

"What is it about love that makes us so stupid?"