Quote by L.J. Shen

“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”

— Owen Sheers

“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds,…

— Megan Lindholm

“She put on some music. Drum and flute, I think. She played it soft, because it was dreadfully late, a time when all good…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“She was given to me to put things right And I stacked all my accomplishments beside her Still I seemed so obselete and small…

— Nick Cave

“Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake she had…

— David Nicholls

“In the beginning, she had hauted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my…

— John Green

“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I…

— William Shakespeare

“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

“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since she died,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust,…

— Megan Abbott

“He poisoned her with affection and compassion, and he taught her what it meant to play again. He gave her hope and tore down…

— Thea Harrison

“It seemed to cast a spell on her as all her earlier despair disappeared and as she went back inside she was filled with…

— Anne Allen