“I love their music, Lin, more than anything I have ever heard, from any culture. But in the heart of my love for it, I have to say that I am afraid. Every time I hear them—and I play them every day, when I am at home here—I have the feeling that I am hearing the sound of my own requiem.”
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“In the feeble light, it wasn't clear what I was supposed to see.”
“Tell him to come back in the daylight, when I'm alive.”
“The wound healed, but it left an ugly, rippling scar. The memory of it never left me.”
“His eyes flickered a tiny, hopeful smile in response, but doubt quickly smothered it.”
“...as if she was announcing that she'd just received some distinguished award.”
“Surrounded by people and hungry for solitude, I was always and everywhere alone.”