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“What’s the matter?’ Rene asks. There’s something unconcerned about her concern. Children have a weird trust in adults to make things okay.”

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“I guess what I’m saying is, when they left they were our dads, but now they’re back they’re soldiers. They’re used to routine and being given orders and giving orders. And they’re used to excitement and being surrounded by other soldiers. They’re used to…I don’t know.”

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“There is something expansive, even a little obsessive, about his mind. It’s full of curious and relics, monographs on music and reams of sheet music. She feels as though she is wandering around a charming if rather cramped second-hand bookshop. She wants to stay there, browsing through it all, for as long as possible.”

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“Music could have made her forget the present, for a moment, even if only by making her remember the past.”

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“…it would be fun to play music.’ ‘Fun?’ ‘Aye. Else why would they call it “play”?”

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“Playing feels like opening a door to a private room were she can go and collect herself. That’s why she does it – not to get better or impress anyone, but only to feel free for a while, a bird in flight.”

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“The only thing that she wants to do is keep moving forward. The only thing that she’s afraid of is standing still. That’s what the dead do. Perhaps there’s another reason behind her fear of inaction, though she tries not to think about it. Inaction drove her and Robert apart. She is making up for saying no at the wrong moment by always saying yes.”

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