12 quotes found
“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”
“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”
“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
“The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.”
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
“Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.”
“It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.”
“Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.”
“One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.”
“The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.”
“The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.”
“It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pear...”
