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“The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod” even though it appears to affect them powerfully. She finds it hard to watch them fight to maintain their composure as the kettledrums roll and the score ascends to its heights. It must cause them something close to agony. Perhaps, she thinks, that is what they require: something that allows them to follow their pain as it rises, in its most beautifully orchestrated form— one that insists on the inevitability of whatever will come, and then releases them, gently, with that knowledge. It is not comfort it gives them, she realizes, but acceptance; not an anaesthetizing of sorrow, but a clear articulation of it,”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“You know how to win,” she says. “Just make sure you know when to fight.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin.”
― Amanda Foody, King of Fools

“She wished Martin hadn't taken his Encyclopaedia Britannica with him when they split up. She missed that more than she missed him.”
― Jenny Diski, The Vanishing Princess