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“And in the silence Leduc realized what Gamache exuded. It wasn’t force. It was power.”

Not sure what I think of this book yet. Taking a bit of a break from it.

“When we are afraid and under time pressure and thinking of worst-case scenarios, we tend to make really stupid decisions. Our ability to think analytically can be overwhelmed by an urge to make quick decisions and take immediate action”. P 226

Fabulous so far

One of the best descriptions of making music ever (p 425). “But slowly, so slowly as to make new definitions of that word, music emerged. It came through you and there was what I suppose was release, snd soon enough release was it’s own end, s d in the repetition and rhythm it’s own addiction too”.

“One of the things about Irish music is how one tune can enter another. You can begin with one reel, and with no clear intention of where you will be going after that, but halfway through it will sort of call up the next so that one reel becomes another and another after that…player and listener are taken away and time and space are defeated”.

“It is so easy, while trapped in just one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living”. P 179

“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is”. P 134

“I know how much my friend suffers, how the pain of his loss still feels so heavy he can’t breathe. I want to tell him it does grow lighter, if only a little bit, but I know this pain will never go away. This pain, I’m beginning to realize, is what all of us must share”.

“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. But there is nothing in this world that needs us fo survival. We aren’t the masters of the earth. We’re the servants.”

“The children do not doubt the evidence of their own bodies. They see what the adults cannot: that one is responsible to a beating heart, that the simple act of walking means moving forward in more than just the literal sense, and that even the act of reaching into the wreckage of a house to save a book or a tea kettle is a kind of a beginning”. Brilliant