A Song for Quiet Quotes

“You can’t murder that which is eternal, that which will lie until death itself passes. But you can slow it, cripple it, hobble it.

You can hurt your nightmares; it’s a two-way street.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Every child knows they’re going to outlive their parents, but understanding is no opiate, can only mitigate. Knowledge can only propagate a trust that someday this will be okay. But not yet, not yet.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Blues is about wanting and not having, about putting that need into someone else's hands for a little while so you can pause and breathe.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“What do you do when the funeral is over but your heart is still broken. When all the condolences have been spoken and the mourners have gone shuffling home, and you’re left to stare at the wall, so raw and empty that you don’t know if you’ll ever be whole again.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Memory populates itself with sneering faces, wine-cheeked characters extolling the division between man and woman, clicking their teeth; full of scorn for anyone who’d bow his head so meekly to a girl. But as quickly as it arrives, that unfortunate conceit is doused. Deacon has never been one to garland himself with someone else’s insecurities, and he’s not about to start now.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Her hair is a torrential halo around a face too grim to have ever been beautiful, all its softness long chewed away. There is only bone left. Bone, and hard-set lips, and dark, determined eyes—the face of someone bartered at the crossroads come back to find out what she was worth.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“the face of someone bartered at the crossroads come back to find out what she was worth.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“And through it all, the cellist follows in adagio, their improvisations woodsmoke and rich shadow. Slow, like the minute before you reach the casket, that nowhere place where you can still make believe the dead are just sleeping.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Deacon leads them down darker roads: Son House, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, moaning sweetly. All the old men who’d been bled of their fancies, whittled to bad dreams and worse habits, their music too sad for a country sick of trying.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“What do you do when the funeral is over but your heart is still broken.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Because you can’t change the world alone but oh, you can do it together. You can, you can, you can.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Worship for salvation; the oldest bargain.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“best interests are always about practicalities,”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet