“Even free spirits had to the face the music sometime.”
“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
“Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.”
“It had been so many years since Charlotte had experienced the sensation of being held in someone's arms. But tonight, between the music and the moon and the unaccountable black magic of the Southern air, she was embraced in the spirit of everything that was good in this world. And she felt free.”
“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”
“Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.”