Song Quote by Michael Cunningham

“It is only a deep echo, perhaps a reverberation of her husband’s madness, as soft as a rustle of batwings in a cave.”

— Stephen King

“If he ever sang, she thought, the song would be so unbearably gorgeous, it would soar over spires of stone and steel, and pierce…

— Thea Harrison

“She sketched songbirds when she was supposed to be minding her lessons, and she sketched church mice when she was meant to be at…

— Tessa Dare

“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

“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.”

— Akshay Vasu

“Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning over and…

— Sarah Dunant

“He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“He towered over her, as intense and savage as only he could be, making her feel small and delicate in comparison, surrounded by his…

— Cristiane Serruya

“All was murkiness, now, the landscape and woods, and far below, the dark brooding sweep of the sea. From a limb he could not…

— Julie Berry

“She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her…

— Wallace Stegner

“who'd found a whole bed of mice.”

— Carolyn Brown