Ache Quote by Arundhati Roy

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances…

— Katherine Catmull

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank.…

— Arundhati Roy

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

— Ann Patchett

“As she sang, she saw the notes float out of her mouth like little butterflies, carrying some of her sadness away, and she knew,…

— Yaa Gyasi

She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of…

— David Gilmour

“Lilus shivers between two humid sheets. She doesn't know why she's sick. The illness surged without warning, traitorous, like a great wave of solitude.…

— Elena Poniatowska

“Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.”

— Mary Shelley

“When she played her music even the night demons stopped their work & it took them some time to remember what it was they…

— Brian Andreas

“Her voice rang out as clear as water from a fountain and wavered with deep emotion as the song washed away her doubt, drowned…

— Anna Adams

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I’ve heard this sound before, she realized, her entire body tingling. She’d caught glimpses of it, like a distant haunting refrain, in her deepest…

— Meagan Spooner

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney