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21 " Look at you, suddenly a model Catholic, concerned about right and wrong. With all due respect, my dear, you wouldn’t know right from wrong if it fucked you up the ass.” She shakes her head, sickened by him, disgusted with herself for not knowing better. She stands. “I didn’t come here to be abused by you.” “Oh, there you go, carting out that word. "
― Lisa Genova , Every Note Played
22 " At the top step, her stomach matches the taste in her mouth, and the word sicken grabs the microphone of her inner monologue. "
23 " Funny - how the story of their lives can be an entirely different genre depending on the narrator. "
24 " but her emotions sit on the throne of her intellect. This is how she’s built, and like any castle, her foundational stones aren’t easily rearranged. "
25 " He ate and drank almost nothing but bologna, Doritos, and Tang in 1977. "
26 " Uszka—little ear-shaped pastas filled with sautéed wild mushrooms. "
27 " Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. "
28 " Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.  "
29 " A PLAN FOR HER FUTURE FORMS AS SHE LISTENS, DETERMINED THOUGHTS THAT SOUND PITCH PERFECT IN HER MIND'S EAR, A COMPOSITION OF NOTES SHE'S BEEN WANTING TO PLAY HER WHOLE LIFE "
30 " But a poisonous black hate lives inside him, and his hatred needs a subject. The easy choice would be ASL, but ALS doesn't have a face or a voice or a heartbeat. Its hard to hate something that isn't human, "
31 " looked. For the past three days, time has been a fat slug napping on a shady stone. Karina is "
32 " She played it, and his words release the last of her grip on twenty years of blame and resentment, of being right at any cost. The cost has been astronomical. "
33 " She plays it again, and his words release the last grip on twenty years of blame and resentment, of being right at any cost. The cost has been astronomical. "
34 " Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. But she hasn’t been big enough or spiritually evolved enough or brave enough to do it. Richard is sick and dying, and she still can’t let him off the "
35 " Location matters in destiny as much as it does in real estate. "
36 " Her unfulfilled life has always been a prison of her own making "
37 " In Poland, Chopin is as revered as Pope John Paul II and God. Poland’s Holy Trinity. "
38 " She imagines the keys under her fingers as she plays along with her mind’s ear, the motor plan unfolded like an old family recipe, still legible after so many years. "
39 " On the road leading to any great achievement are a thousand missteps, a thousand more dead ends. Success cannot be born without the life and death of failure. "
40 " Jazz improvisation is a speech without a script. It’s twelve notes and doing anything she pleases. There are no rules, no boundaries. Verbs don’t have to follow nouns. There is no gravity. Up can be down. "