“Her repertoire ran mainly from the late Romantics, Schumann and Mendelssohn, to Poulenc, Ravel, Bartók, and Prokofiev.”
“Bartók. Blame it on Bartók. Or the bossanova.”
“For he is superstitious grown of late,Quite from the main opinion he held onceOf fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.”
“... the surprised bookseller, whose name (inexplicably) was Mendelssohn. He was no relation to the German composer, and this Mendelssohn either overliked his last name or disliked his first so much that he never revealed it. (When Ted had once asked him his first name, Mendelssohn had said only: "Not Felix.")”
“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time”
“To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.”