“To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.” LoveRomanceCourageRiskSurvivalSecretsSistersWomen S RightsTurmoilNoblewomen Book:The Virgins of Venice Source: The Virgins of Venice
“Venetian laws last but a week. They keep making new laws because no one follows the old ones…. Or enforces them.” FreedomFamilyNovelStrengthFiction NovelTurmoilHopesAristocratic DaughtersNoblewomen Book:The Virgins of Venice Source: The Virgins of Venice
“I believe such compassion and prudence is good politics on the part of Mother Marina. If our convent cannot be completely virtuous, better to give the appearance of being so. Thus she keeps her nuns happy as well as the government and the church.” FreedomFamilyStrengthSecretsWomen S RightsTurmoilHopesAristocratic DaughtersNoblewomen Book:The Virgins of Venice Source: The Virgins of Venice
“The next week passed in a haze of mourning, as thick and disorienting as the unrelenting fog that crept over the stones of Venice each morning.” RomanceFamilyStrengthSecretsWomen S RightsTurmoilHopesAristocratic DaughtersNoblewomen Book:The Virgins of Venice Source: The Virgins of Venice
“It was not in my nature to gossip, which put me at odds with most of my sisters at San Zaccaria, who twittered hearsay like so many flocks of birds.” RomanceFamilySecretsSistersWomen S RightsTurmoilHopesAristocratic DaughtersNoblewomen Book:The Virgins of Venice Source: The Virgins of Venice