“ Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands. ”
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
~ Sarah Dunant
Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.
Family. The greatest loyalty after God.
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.
