The Piano Tuner Quotes

“The conversations rests uneasily; one doesn't expect good-byes to be burdened by such trivialities. This is not how it is in the books, he thinks, or in the theater, and he feels the need to speak of mission, of duty, of love. They reach home and close the door and he doesn't drop her hand. Where speech fails, touch compensates.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“At times I wonder if the reason I have lost track of time is that I will know when to return not by a date, but when an emptiness is filled.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“being needed was not the same as being accepted.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“Perhaps he has seen what I will,”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“So much of what I have done is tied to what I will do that at times the truth I have already experienced threatens to vanishe with that which I have yet to see. How to express this to you? Whereas my journey until now has been one of potential, of imagination, now its loss seems to question everything I have seen. I have allowed dreams to melt into my realities, now realitieies threaten to melt to only dreams, to disappear. I don't know if anything I am writing makes sense, but in the face of such beauty around me, I only see myself standing outside our door in Franklin Mews, bag in hand, unchanged from the day I left."
-Edgar, in a letter to his wife (Chp 11)”
― Daniel Mason, L'afinador de pianos

“war. A balanced peace is a poor fertilizer for promotion.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“that being needed was not the same as being accepted.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“good piano tuner must have knowledge not only of his instrument but of “Physics, Philosophy, and Poetics,” so that Edgar, although he never attended university, reached his twentieth birthday with more education than many who had.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“One learns a lot if others assume you are deaf to their tongue.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“others.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“Essere necessari non significa essere accettati.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“È una storia di sogni, gridò, sono tutte storie di sogni.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“Clementi, Sonata in Fa Diesis Minore, Opera 25, Numero 5" disse Katherine, e lui annuì. Una volta le aveva spiegato che quella sonata evocava in lui l'immagine di un uomo perduto in mezzo al mare mentre la sua innamorata lo aspetta sulla riva.”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“In poche righe le confessava le sue emozioni dicendo di essersi sentito "come nell'Allegro con Brio della Sonata 50 in Re Maggiore di Haydn".”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner

“There is a Shan saying that when people die it is because they have done what they needed to, because they are too good for this world. I”
― Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner