“…the violin — that most human of all instruments…”

“Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.”

“Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”

“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. ”

“They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You're being punished by your anger.”

“You can always choose to change your future.”

“If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.”

“but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.”