Bel canto Quotes

“Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.”

“...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...”

“Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.”

“The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.”

“But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.”

“They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.”

“...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.”

“If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.”

“Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.”

“There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.”