Awareness Quote by Virginia Woolf

“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

“She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her…

— Thomas Hardy

“The threads of these thoughts trailed after her throughout the rest of the day, like loose ends on a fabric, needing to either be…

— Marilyn Brant

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

— Owen Sheers

“Yet both the horse and the piano knew her and didn’t care how she compared with her former self. They were hers. She was…

— Marie Rutkoski

“She actually moved her neck back and forth as though to shake off the cumbersome weight of the sound, and realized that she had…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Now, when he sat at the piano, he did not play music for the company the notes provided him. He played the music so…

— Meredith Duran

“She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Did he hear it, she wondered as she glimpsed her husband’s face through half-closed eyes and saw what was quickly becoming a familiar look:…

— Alice McDermott

“This girl wasn’t tapping her fingers restlessly, though. Her movements were methodical. Synchronized. Sitting far enough to the left of her to study her…

— Tammara Webber

“Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.”

— Henry James

“She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a…

— Stephen King