Karla

“Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.”
― T.C. Boyle, Drop City

“And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselves melted into tears, we weep then, not... through excess of pleasure, but through a certain petulant, impatient sorrow at our inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at once and forever, those divine and raptorous joys of which through the poem, or through the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

“Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Beware of shadows bearing gifts.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon