I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one. - Frances Mayes
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.
- Frances Mayes
Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a myster… - Frances Mayes
Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a myster…
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many … - Frances Mayes
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many …
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words? - Frances Mayes
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. - Frances Mayes
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? - Frances Mayes
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. - Frances Mayes
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk. - Frances Mayes
The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. - Frances Mayes
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
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