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“Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some page In some chapter In some book?”

Book:Audition

Source: Audition

“Four laughs vibrate in harmony, Warm Delicious Real.”

Real Laughter Audition

Book:Audition

Source: Audition

“Thank God there are places with sounds that make me cry from beauty, not from pain.”

Contemporary Fiction Verse Novel

Book:The Sound of Letting Go

Source: The Sound of Letting Go

“I play the music of Steven for Steven; ragged, helpless, it owns me, enveloping me with an incomprehensible love -”

Love Brothers Hurting Heart Verse Novel

Book:The Sound of Letting Go

Source: The Sound of Letting Go

“Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.”

Book:The Sound of Letting Go

Source: The Sound of Letting Go

“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school; count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over and I am only a little afraid of the night.”

Disability Autism Verse Novel Family Situations

Book:The Sound of Letting Go

Source: The Sound of Letting Go

“The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me”

Music Young Adult Fiction Contemporary Fiction Verse Novel

Book:The Sound of Letting Go

Source: The Sound of Letting Go

“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave the page. I think I only write What happens across my brain When my feet are too weary To dance anymore.”

Writing Dance Words

Book:Audition

Source: Audition

“There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guy Miles Davis. He made this famous album in 1959 called Kind of Blue which is kind of, always, how I feel. That album gets into your bones goes and goes starts, hesitates, reaches out, feels for the music, the sound, the thing you want to change. Always grasping for the unattainable makes you kind of excited, kind of sorry.”

Music Jazz Verse Novels Miles Davis

Book:The Sound of Letting Go

Source: The Sound of Letting Go

“I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws it beneath my stomach. "One more time..." This is not sex, Not friendship. Something Strange Special In the stillness of his breath, The waterlike way he moves. He is making a dance. We are making a dance.”

Book:Audition

Source: Audition

“I've a long time trying to love a brother whose only way of touching me is pain. A long time escaping into music. Practice, lessons, rehearsals that protect me from the hurting parts of life. I've been winning awards, applause, acclaim for my trumpets since I was in grade school. But love? The word catches in my throat. Do I love anything? Have i forgotten how?”

Love Hurt Confusion

Book:The Sound of Letting Go

Source: The Sound of Letting Go