
Bel Canto (P.S.)

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle que nul ne peut apprivoiser, et c’est bien en vain qu’on l’appelle, s’il lui convient de refuser.
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
That she would love him simply for having loved her?
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
In fate there was reward, in turning over one’s heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don’t you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and ap
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A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air.
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
She came into your life through an air-conditioner vent and how she will leave is the question that keeps you awake in the few free moments you have to sleep.
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
He spent his whole life in a confused dream state in which he was never exactly awake or completely asleep. He wondered sometimes if it was love or just a lack of rest that had twisted such a longing in his heart.
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
If someone loves you for what you can do then it’s flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”