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“ We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serious, and he stopped me, and he said that unrequited love was not possible; that it was not love. He said that love must be freely given, and freely taken, such that the lovers, in joining, make equal halves of something whole. ”

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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