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Top 15 Gina Buonaguro Quotes (2025 Update)

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.”

1. “The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.”

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Gina Buonaguro Quote: “I had no answers, just a never-ending list of questions that I scrawled out until my hand ached, knowing I was searching for a loophole that increasingly felt like a noose.”

2. “I had no answers, just a never-ending list of questions that I scrawled out until my hand ached, knowing I was searching for a loophole that increasingly felt like a noose.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “You know what they say: Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.”

3. “You know what they say: Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.”

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Gina Buonaguro Quote: “To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.”

4. “To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.”

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Gina Buonaguro Quote: “Despite the convent walls, when I was writing, my mind was free.”

5. “Despite the convent walls, when I was writing, my mind was free.”

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Gina Buonaguro Quote: “I imagined myself a bird, looking down on our city, the Grand Canal like a snake slithering through stone, the city on either side like two hands clasped in prayer.”

6. “I imagined myself a bird, looking down on our city, the Grand Canal like a snake slithering through stone, the city on either side like two hands clasped in prayer.”

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Gina Buonaguro Quote: “I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”

7. “I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”

10. “We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers.”

11. “Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers.”

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Gina Buonaguro Quote: “Knowing I should get into the habit of praying on my knees before bed, I shrugged and instead huddled under the bedcovers, the rose clasped in my hands close to my heart. The stem was very long, with all thorns removed, and an old Venetian saying came to mind: The longer the stem, the greater the love.”

12. “Knowing I should get into the habit of praying on my knees before bed, I shrugged and instead huddled under the bedcovers, the rose clasped in my hands close to my heart. The stem was very long, with all thorns removed, and an old Venetian saying came to mind: The longer the stem, the greater the love.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “The day was perfect. Hot, yes, but with a refreshing zephyr sidling in from the west. The lagoon was flecked with small islands, and beyond lay the more ominous mainland, the papal army camped somewhere on it. But here, on this beautiful islet far from our usual universe, a warrior pope seemed a figment.”

13. “The day was perfect. Hot, yes, but with a refreshing zephyr sidling in from the west. The lagoon was flecked with small islands, and beyond lay the more ominous mainland, the papal army camped somewhere on it. But here, on this beautiful islet far from our usual universe, a warrior pope seemed a figment.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Gina Buonaguro

Gina Buonaguro Quote: “Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin.”

15. “Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin.”

— Gina Buonaguro

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