“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

“Well, if it isn't my destroying angel," Henry said.”

“He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”

“What about you, Ellen?' he asked. 'What does music mean to you?'It was a while before she answered. 'When I was at school... quite little still... there was a girl there who had perfect pitch and a lovely voice and she played the piano. I used to hear people talking about her.' She paused, lacing her fingers together. '"She's musical," they used to say, "Deirdre's musical," and it was as if they'd said: "She's angelic." That's how it seemed to me to be musical: to be angelic.'Isaac turned to her. 'My God, Ellen,' he said huskily, 'it is you who are angelic. If there's anyone in the world who is angelic it is you.”

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

“The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.”