Quotes
Authors
Ella Leya
"My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance." --
Source : Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.24, Sourcebooks, Inc.
Ella Leya
#Keys Quotes
#Blue Quotes
#Hands Quotes
“I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.”
“Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me.”
Source : Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company
“We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.”
“When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.”
“Oh that God would humble me deeply in the dust before Him! i deserve Hell every day for not lovingmy Lord more, who has, i trust, loved me and given Himself for me.”
“The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
“Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.”
Source : Roman Jakobson (1971). “Selected Writings: Word and Language”, p.561, Walter de Gruyter
“We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.”
