Tomas and the Gypsy Violin Quotes

“My father bought my stepmother a gift to stop her nagging – he gave her a troubled, seven-year-old, curly-haired, dark-eyed little boy. Like he was presenting her with a floppy-eared puppy. It was stupid and callous and heart-breaking.”
― Robert Eisenberg, Tomas and the Gypsy Violin

“From the storage room under the basement stairs she pulled out a small cardboard trunk that could only have been Tomas’s. Inside was an unvarnished, incomplete violin…Tomas took one look and burst into tears.”
― Robert Eisenberg, Tomas and the Gypsy Violin

“I’ve never seen a little face that conveyed so much: defiance, anger, fear, and unbearable sadness, all giving wordless testimony to the enormous loss and dislocation that had shattered his life.”
― Robert Eisenberg, Tomas and the Gypsy Violin