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“While your parents are alive, eat as much of their love as you can, so it can sustain your for the rest of your life.”

“‘Some believe that if we’re not smart like your mother and brother, we can’t accomplish things. But we can if we are: one, funny, and two, humble.”

"But people believe stories and then they make them real."

"We pass the test when we accept that their dreams and desires and goals may not be ours. Many people fail this test but we don't have to, and even failing we can try and . And again. And pass at last."

"The answer that even Linna has trouble seeing is that 'nice' and 'not nice' have nothing to do with love. And even loving someone doesn't mean you can share your house and the fine thread of your life, or sleep safely in the same place."

"They will never be free of stories though their stores may free them."

"All public works - drainage, schemes, roadwork, amphitheaters, public squares, sewers, alleys and mews - was alchemy. It took the invisible patterns that people made as they lived, and turned them into stone and brick and wood and space. Kit built things that moved people through the intangible architecture that was his mind and his notion - and Empire's notion - of how their lives could be better."

“I lie awake and cannot see anything but that baby, the baby I have formed while in my head, a black Athena, who reaches for me. Who gives me that name as if it is mine: Mama.”

“I scrub, wipe like I could wipe the love of Manny, the hate of Manny, Manny, away. And then I get up because it is the only thing I can do. I step out of the ditch and brush the ants off because it is the only thing I can do. I follow Randall around the house because it is the only think I can do; if this is strength, if this is weakness, this is what I do.”

“China is white as the sand that will become a pearl, Skeetah black as an oyster, but they stand as one before these boys who do not know what it means to love a dog the way that Skeetah does.”

“Rico’s grill is bright, but Manny, his arms folded, is more gold than Rico’s smile, and I hate him for it.”

"Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you pay always affects someone."

"Death has no ears. Someone wrote that when Tarrega died. If it did, it could never rob the world of his music."

"'When you want someone to listen to you, will you attack them?'
'No, Maestro.'
'No, you will not. You will make them hear the beauty of what you are offering, and they will want it for themselves.'"

"I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation."

"Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful."

"'Remember this, Francisco,' he said. 'The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.'"

"No other creature has this arrogance - to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a song. It is a plea."

“Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.”

“All humans are musical.
Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart.”

“She is calm and self-possessed as a housecat, it is the way that all girls who only know one boy move. Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree’s roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don’t uproot in hurricane wind. Love as certainty.”

“These are my options, and the narrow to none.”

“‘Take A lot out of an animal to nurse and nurture like that. Price of being a female.’ Finally Manny glances at me. It’s lights over me like I’m glass.
Skeetah laughs. It sounds as if it’s hacking its way out of him.
‘You serious? That’s when they come into their strength. They got something to protect.’ He glances at me, too, but I feel it even after he looks away. ‘That’s power.’”

“Anything is safe until it kills you.”

"The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable."

"Maybe the best thing to do with favorite films and books is to leave them be: to achieve such an exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be re-created."

"Perhaps no single novel can capture the variety of our lives; perhaps even Houellebeq and Anne Tyler between them can't get the job done. Perhaps we need to read a lot."

"This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life."

“Our health care crisis extends far beyond the issue of Isaura ce coverage - it is a crisis of connection with the biological reality of our existence.”

“With jobs that are degrading, routines that are automatic, and environments that annihilate our senses, we lose the joy that arises from the dynamic connection with the only living presence we are guaranteed to have for the rest of our lives: our body.”