Accordions Quote by Markus Zusak

“He was supposed to be reading, but all he could do was watch her and love her bare arms, her Alice band, her straight…

— Ian McEwan

“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

“Papa was an accordion. But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.”

— Markus Zusak

“What frightened her the most was the moment of those first notes, because that was when people really listened: She was changing the atmosphere…

— Elizabeth Strout

“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid…

— Kate Morton

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

— Owen Sheers

“Then I told her what I didn’t see. Namely, that I didn’t see her. You could be standing a few feet away—Clara’s dance partner,…

— David Levithan

“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 was sitting up now. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me, and we were quite calm. She was…

— Ernest Hemingway

The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn…

— Philip Pullman

“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