“No matter how much money he'd been offered or how many glittering stars had requested duets, he hadn't sung for them.But he'd sung for me.”
In this quote by Karen Healey, the speaker reflects on a special moment where someone chose to sing for them over all the other tempting offers they had received. The simple act of choosing to share their voice with this particular person holds great significance and speaks to a deeper connection between the two individuals. This quote highlights the power of personal connections and the impact they can have on our choices and actions.
“You knew what I was," he said, taking his hair back from his face, eyes wild with the will to make me believe. "You knew that my face is a lie, just pretending to be human. And you still wanted me, you could touch me, you could see what I am, the only one who knew and wanted me all the same, and you said I wasn't a --" his chest hitched. "Not a monster. I was going to tell you, and then I thought, well, I'm probably going to die in the underworld, so why can't I have this until then? I'm the stupid one; not you. I'm so sorry.”
“There wasn't any food or heat, but we had light, and places to sit, and a complete lack of frightening murderers, and that turned out to be enough for now.”
“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.”
“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”
“She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.”
“If i could have sung it would be a very sad song.”