Elysanthe > Quotes

“Perhaps this self-punishing agony, this life-long obsession, perhaps that’s the price some great artists have to pay to be that great; it’s not just talent, anyone can have talent.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“To dispose of your essence,
It’s self-mutilation.
It’s self-abuse.
Music is not what we do. It’s who we are. Never forget that.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“So massive were these music sheets, they spread over the entire table’s surface and hung off its edges like the disposable paper tablecloths used in Greek seaside taverns.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“All things leveled under the snow, including time.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“The door closed. It reopened seconds later, again ever so slightly, keeping in the dark most of Rosa’s face and Rosa’s body, and Rosa’s Rosa. (Ariadne & Dionysus)”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“She stared blankly at the bars jailing Mozart’s melodies.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Underneath all the commotion, concealed from the platform where the action happens, hidden from the audience’s plain sight, Ari and Carl stepped into the theater’s womb—the orchestra pit.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“That would be a good conductor. You asked what makes a successful conductor…”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Oily black-gray tufts eddied and stuck on the quivering poinsettia leaves, now frost-nipped and withered.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“If you are this unhappy as a world class musician, do us all a favor and quit! Instead of dragging your smug, unappreciative ass to the symphony halls of the world, soiling them with your banality.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Sexism is a crime against women,” he announced... But Ari knew it was worse than that, for sexism is a crime against reason. And how do you argue with the unreasonable?”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Youth over experience. Sex appeal over skill. Style over good taste. They want to see energy, energy, energy—overcompensating for the complete lack of substance," said Elijah Harris.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Her skin was covered in nature’s brightly printed fabric, the forest’s pulse synchronized with hers. It entered her every pore. This wasn’t a walk in the woods; it was a transfusion.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Floating on a frothing sea of lies, Carl sat deep in his chair as if it were the lifeboat of his shipwrecked reality.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“He smirked awkwardly. “Go easy on me, now… I’m not accustomed to that many compliments from you,” he said. Sharon cupped his shabby-chic beard with her soft hands.
“Last one, I promise,” she said.
“Let’s get this over with.”
“Carl, you are not your father.”
( Ariadne & Dionysus)”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“He’d be grateful for this career, because it would mean he gets to keep his soul.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“His love was audible, tactile, visible; fluorescent. His words carried a supreme, deliciously frightening power—there was magic inside their nucleus. (...) It was the first love—young love, ecstatic love—with a mind of its own, a beating heart of its own. A living, breathing, pulsating, all-consuming beast of a love.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“One last, lonely knell lingered in the air for a while—then perished in the downpour. It was Christmas.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Will you stop us, Ari? All of us?” He smiled very amused. “How will you accomplish that?” She cast a victorious glance on his face and raised her glass.
“One bitch at a time.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“A vocation-amputee can still sense the presence of the missing dream.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“When there is no way out, the only way to escape is inward.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Magic and music; music and magic. As a wise man once said, they’re only two letters apart.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“When an event—let alone an organization—is mainly based on one man’s fame and name, then that man holds all the cards, warned Antoine Thomas ( Ariadne & Dionysus)”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Suddenly, the piano went silent. It was a disquieting moment. Ari felt like a zookeeper locked in a cage with a wolf.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“The orchestra pit door’s large shadow opened its black mouth and swallowed them whole.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“Through an armoire’s mirrored doors, she saw the ghoul transforming back into a tired, unwell man.”
― Elysanthe, ARIADNE & DIONYSUS

“There is not a more beautiful landscape than a symphony orchestra.”
― Elysanthe

“She threaded her way through a vibrant lattice of musical timbres, crowding the Royal Festival Hall’s backstage corridor. It sounded as if all the London Philharmonic’s musicians were simultaneously warming up their fingers and pipes. The magnificent turmoil of human and instrumental warble crashed into her.”
― Elysanthe

“Surrounded by this opulence, her reflection in the bedroom mirror was jarring—a single cacophonous chord disrupting an otherwise colorful, harmonious symphonic movement.”
― Elysanthe

“This Memory had the form of a forty-foot-long tapeworm, sapping nutrients straight from her soul.”
― Elysanthe