The Lost Melody Quotes

“When it came to darkness, you could succumb and let it consume you…or you could invade it with light of your own.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“We’re all of us told to walk in the light, but we don’t. We simply wish to drag the light over to where we’re already standing, so we may better see the path we’ve set out for ourselves. I dearly wished to set my own path. To take control for once in my life. But perhaps I wasn’t meant to – not in the way I’d tried it, anyway.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“We're all of us told to walk in the light, but we don't. We simply wish to drag the light over to where we're already standing, so we may better see the path we've set out for ourselves.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“You've given people permission to be themselves -- whatever odd collection of cracks and fissures and paint smears they have. There's true freedom in that.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“One cannot help staring at the light, eh? Especially when he’s been cowering in the shadows for so long…. Perhaps it’s time you quit choosing the darkness – quit lingering there. Whatever you believe you’re paying penance for, it’s costing you…. If you begin to think you are not worthy, too broken, you’re focused on the wrong person.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“What good's a candle out in pure daylight, then? You tell me that.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“For all the locking up he’d done, all the patients he’d managed to control with cells and restraints, there was one thing those walls could not contain.
Light.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“There is no such thing as hopeless cases. Only those who have lost hope.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“I've met very few so-called sane people who interested me in the least, for they are all the same -- or they try to be, and what's the sense in that?”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“My music had begun to splinter apart, as if Hurstwell's shadows had come home with me, magnifying my uncertainty with each passing hour.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“Within that worn-down body resided a spark of instinctual nurturing. She was a mother -- or had been once. And though her mind was shuttered, her heart knew how to mother still.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

“I don’t believe in labels, Dr. Turner. Boxes were never designed to hold people—they simply aren’t the correct shape.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody: A Novel

“Sometimes all it takes is one person, no matter how insignificant, to look at the world differently. Then invite others to do the same.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody