Eleanor Catton said this quote

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

~ Eleanor Catton

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

~ Eleanor Catton

The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves.

~ Eleanor Catton

The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light—grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

~ Eleanor Catton