Quote by Ann Patchett

“The music touched her, haunted her, because it was so beautiful and because she had never waltzed to it in her true love's arms.…

— Meagan McKinney

“When I was hungry I fed almost daily on the words of her songs.”

— Jaroslav Seifert

“Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.”

— Robert Greenberg

“It was as if she could hear music, where there was no music.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“No one had ever given her music before.”

— Markus Zusak

“But the music did not come again. The tune was left broken, unfinished. And the drawn tightness she could no longer stand. She felt…

— Carson McCullers

“She stood in front of the speakers instead and closed her eyes, not really dancing, just bouncing and whispering the lyrics. After the first…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Little notes of music trembled in hesitation, and burst, and rolled in quick, fine waves, like the thin, clear ringing of glass. Little notes…

— Ayn Rand

“Her beauty was like a pulsating silence full of music.”

— Lionel Suggs

“Without me, she would not eat. Without her, I would not live.”

— Pierce Brown

“And she sang. Perhaps she'd never stop, for it was rather freeing, this blissful, empowered place where she was nothing but rhythm and resonance.”

— Dianna Hardy

“in her heart it didn't give her near the same feeling that music did. Nothing was really as good as music.”

— Carson McCullers