The Violin Maker's Secret Quotes

“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