Adi Rule > Quotes

“Sometimes I worry that belief and hope are the same thing, and that truth is something else entirely.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“Her parents could have named her Aria, or Harmonia, or Tessitura, or a hundred other clever names that would have alluded to her ancestry. But they weren't for her, these names that roll or sparkle or play or simply proclaim, I am normal!
No, it was Sing. A name and a command.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“In the eyes of this man, she saw loss and despair, as she saw in all creatures. But this loss was different. It wasn’t the loss of a beloved, it was the loss of being.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“If you had looked, then, into the crow’s eyes, if you had been a ghost or a puff of smoke and had floated up to the ceiling to look deeply into those shiny black eyes where the brilliant white keys were reflected, you would have seen a despair bigger than those eyes could hold, bigger than the hall itself.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“FOR CREATURES SO NATURALLY FEARFUL, humans had a knack for wandering into danger.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“I think a wish—a real wish—must be for something impossible. Something unthinkable. Otherwise it’s just you looking for an easy way to—to wherever it is you think you want to go.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“She scans the corridor, wondering if anyone else is deep in conversation about composers whose only fans are other musicians.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“There is an ugliness about him—not in his features, but in his lackluster gaze.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song

“THE FELIX WAS BORN A THING of beauty, and despair, as is its nature, only made her more beautiful.”
― Adi Rule, Strange Sweet Song