Julia Nadeane

“If we put a gun to her head she would sing all day. Try it first with a bird, General Benjamin said gently to Alfredo. Like our soprano, they have no capacity to understand authority. The bird doesn't know enough to be afraid and the person holding the gun will only end up looking like a lunatic.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“It was not a musical voice, and yet it affected him like music.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto