Eleanor Catton said this quote

“ Are you fixing to stay in this country, then, Walter? After you've dug yourself a patch, and made yourself a pile?''I expect my luck will decide that question for me.''Would you call it lucky to stay, or lucky to go?''I'd call it lucky to choose,' said Moody—surprising himself, for that was not the answer he would have given, three months prior. ”

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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