The Violin Maker's Secret Quotes

“Ah yes”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“It finally struck him that it didn’t really matter what you did or didn’t do in this life. The point was just to experience it”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“How many of them felt as though they were in the wrong life”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“Just a few more steps and he would be back in his comfort zone. Which was where exactly? Just outside. Always just outside. A witness to life”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“Death had come”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“Death had come, and now he could see the real meaning of life. It wasn’t about making a good name for yourself or earning a decent salary. It was about fun, silliness, touching other people’s lives in some way, and letting them touch yours. Letting yourself be blown about and shaped by experience. Being curious rather than scared all of the time. Living in dread of the future – that seemed to be the common thread that kept everyone tied in knots, weighted down with painful memories of the past. Yet Walter found the more his thoughts stayed in the present, the simpler everything became.”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“lilies dipped in wine”.”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“After Summer died”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“That her greatest achievement should be to sacrifice herself at the altar of her husband’s dreams was the myth that bound so many women into slavery. Why be an artist when you can be my muse?”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“had been the planet around which he had orbited for many years”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“two people who obviously had feelings for each other but had decided (as humans do) to over-complicate the entire endeavour with thoughts. Thoughts about the past, the future, themselves and why they were profoundly unlovable.”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“Her validation had always come from the outside and so when she could ascertain no hint of how she was being perceived, she wasn’t sure if something was good or bad.”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“She wondered if it was the same for everyone else. Did they too have a dividing line in their lives, clearly marking the before and after? The person they were before and the person they’d had to become to survive the aftermath? And if you couldn’t love this new version, how could you expect anyone else to?”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“Nature has such an exquisite way of reminding us how beautiful life can be”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret

“She wondered if it was the same for everyone else. Did they too have a dividing line in their lives”
― Evie Woods, The Violin Maker's Secret