She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!

I don't want to be married just to be married.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to – you wouldn't grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.