Gerald Durrell  - Quotes

 Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. 

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Aeschylus  - Quotes

 And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

 

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Jeffrey Eugenides  - Quotes

 Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.  

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Nikos Kazantzakis  - Quotes

 Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. 

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Ann Brashares  - Quotes

 It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn, she 

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Ioanna Karystiani  - Quotes

 brown-capped porcini, yellow chanterelles, and oysters, every hillside ablaze with multicolored mushrooms, tasty and not nourishing in the slightest. 

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