Books Quote by Lauren Groff

“The Moonlight sonata is a strange piece of music. It's been called a Lamentation. You can feel that when you play it, can feel…

— Tiffany Reisz

“She wanted to explain everything to him—how certain notes of the Moonlight Sonata shredded her heart like wind inside a paper bag; how her…

— Thrity Umrigar

“But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and…

— E.M. Forster

“And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last…

— Carson McCullers

“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it…

— Boris Pasternak

“There’s something tragic about the way the moonlight hits her. It’s like tonight is hers. The black sky looking down and shaking its head.…

— Daniel Abbott

“What were her abilities? She played the pianoforte passably well even though it didn't interest her. She loved to read and could spend the…

— Karen Ranney

“The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn't true. She…

— Andre Previn

“Moonlight wreaks havoc on an otherwise sane thinking mind. It makes you think that the impossible is possible, and your dreams, reality.”

— Jessiqua Wittman

“Until she walked into my life I was simply a violin of rusted notes. In one night she rearranged the mess inside me, exposing…

— Poppet

“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a…

— Kate Morton