Quotes from work

Songmaster

“He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.”

“[He] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.”

“I wanted your songs.
You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.”

“She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.”

“He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.”

“Only a fool can't be fooled.”

“You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.”

“I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.”