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1 " Sometimes I worry that belief and hope are the same thing, and that truth is something else entirely. "
― Adi Rule , Strange Sweet Song
2 " If you had looked, then, into the crow’s eyes, if you had been a ghost or a puff of smoke and had floated up to the ceiling to look deeply into those shiny black eyes where the brilliant white keys were reflected, you would have seen a despair bigger than those eyes could hold, bigger than the hall itself. "
3 " Her parents could have named her Aria, or Harmonia, or Tessitura, or a hundred other clever names that would have alluded to her ancestry. But they weren't for her, these names that roll or sparkle or play or simply proclaim, I am normal!No, it was Sing. A name and a command. "
4 " In the eyes of this man, she saw loss and despair, as she saw in all creatures. But this loss was different. It wasn’t the loss of a beloved, it was the loss of being. "
5 " She scans the corridor, wondering if anyone else is deep in conversation about composers whose only fans are other musicians. "
6 " There is an ugliness about him—not in his features, but in his lackluster gaze. "
7 " THE FELIX WAS BORN A THING of beauty, and despair, as is its nature, only made her more beautiful. "
8 " FOR CREATURES SO NATURALLY FEARFUL, humans had a knack for wandering into danger. "
9 " I think a wish—a real wish—must be for something impossible. Something unthinkable. Otherwise it’s just you looking for an easy way to—to wherever it is you think you want to go. "