“Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.”
“If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the guts of a dead cat is something I shall never understand.”
“If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.”
“After all, why are people only promise, if they are not worth playing.”
“Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.”
“Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.”