Ann Patchett, Bel Canto Quotes

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together.

Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.

Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.

If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...