Three Things About Elsie

by Joanna Cannon

trapped against the frets of the violins,

We need the faults, the breaks, the fracture lines.” “We do?” I said. “Of course we do. However else would all the light get in?”

Leonrd Cohen quote reference

He missed his children. He called them his piano keyboard although I’ve no idea why.”

Jaw dropped . Wasnt looking for this connection.

ordinary people who were not ordinary, but who were people who turned out, in the end, to be quite extraordinary after all.

I think the hardest part of losing anyone is that you still have to live with the same scenery.

And sometimes, even if you don’t have the right words, it’s better to use the ones you’ve already got, rather than say nothing at all.

“Jack used to say planting seeds at his age was an act of optimism.”