Personal space Quote by Maud Hart Lovelace

“We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.”

— Chris Lynch

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling…

— Diane Cilento

“Once in a while, she said, the patients put on a theatrical show here, and beneath the stage a magnificent grand piano awaited the…

— Norman Lewis

“I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”

— Angela Carter

“My mother has always loved piano music and hungered to play. When she was in her early sixties, she retired from her job as…

— Katie Hafner

“golden and worn, the dingy color of mustard powder. A piano sat off to the side, with photographs”

— Melissa Foster

“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“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

“Her thoughts became mysteriously tightened and strung up as if a piano tuner had put his key in her back and stretched the nerves…

— Virginia Woolf

“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus…

— Anonymous

“cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother’s,”

— Lynne Reid Banks