“closer than a touch on your skin,deeper than a breathe you draw in;stronger than a hurricane wind,is the dwelling of God within.”

“Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer.”

“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

“You are closer to me than my breath,”

“More so than with any other instrument, the violin becomes part of the body. Good musicians are physically dissolved when playing, and for violinists, who cannot see where to place their fingers and have nothing to guide them through touch, music must be more than ever about memory than fingertips and breath; the ventage is deeper, more of the self, closer to singing.”

“Stronger than iron crueler than deathsweeter than springtimeit lives beyond breath”