Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no...

Gledajući sve to, razmišljao je kako onaj koji kopnom dolazi u Veneciju na kolodvor ima osjećaj da ulazi u palaču na stražnji ulaz, i da ne valja nikako drukčije dolaziti nego samo ovako kao on...

I’m feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.

Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become...

Getting lost is the only place worth going to.

She never imagined that at twenty years old she’d already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella’s son catches on!]

Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of...

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella’s perceptive view of herself]

VISIONS OF GRANDEURI’m walking through a sheet of glass instead of the door,Flying over a giant candlestick lighting up Central Park,Repeating two courses at Hard Knock’s College,And swimming through the Red Sea with silky jelly...

In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one of Master Fumagalli’s gondolas, taking in the panorama of bridges, domes, bell towers,...

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked…

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this...

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

We guess as we read, we create; everything starts from an initial error; those that follow (and this applies not only to the reading of letters and telegrams, not only to all reading), extraordinary as...

Nellie grinned. “I always wanted to go to Venice. It’s supposed to be the romance capital of the world.””Sweet,” put in Dan. “Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike.”The au...

I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.

Could any State on Earth Immortall be,Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd,Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed;Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure,Nor any Forren mixtures can endure;Though, Syren-like...

Bienvenidos a mi barco pirata. Vamos rumbo a Venecia, a cazar vampiros.

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

By day it is filled with boat traffic – waterbuses, delivery boats, gondolas – if something floats and it’s in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal.And by daylight it is one of the glories...

For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, ‘We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!’

Incominciamo.

I’ve always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there. Or maybe they don’t sleep – some don’t – but they live there....

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn’t it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn’t be Venice,...