“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had.”
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
“Olivia watched him through a blur of tears, despising the futility of it. For there was nothing she could say to comfort a man whose family was long dead; there was no balm to heal wounds that scored a man's soul; and there was no way to make a man believe in the ties that bind.”
“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”
“Music always reminded him of the voice of God, for it needed no translation and could reach and renew the soul like very few other things could.”
“In any relationship each person should support the other; they should lift the other up.”