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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
He wondered now if everyone had a private life. He wondered if his wife had one. It was possible that all those years he had been alone, never knowing that a complete world existed and no one spoke of it.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
Only Mr. Hosokawa and the priest completely understood the importance of the music. Every note was distinct. It was the measurement of the time which had gotten away from them. It was the interpretation of their lives in the very moment they were being lived.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
He said it in languages he knew he need not include, Serbo-Croation and Cantonese, just because there was comfort in speaking and no one tried to stop him. 'Stand up,' is not a message that needed translation in the first place. People are sheep about certain things. When some begin to stand, the rest will follow."
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
Wearing shoes in the house was barbaric. There was almost as much indignity in wearing shoes in the house as there was in being kidnapped.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
Had the accompanist played so well? It would have been impossible to remember, his talent was to be invisible, to lift the soprano up, but now the people in the living room of the vice-presidential mansion listened to Kato with hunger and nothing in their lives had ever fed them so well.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
He could see in his face a love so obviously displayed that she must already know everything there was to know about it. He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. It was with the smallest step forward that his face was in her hair and then her arms were around his back and they were holding each other. It seemed so simple to get to this place, such a magnificent relief, that he couldn't imagine why he had not been holding her every minute since they first met.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
In the absence of language, she believed that he agreed with her completely.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. It's not such a bad thing, being loved for what you can do." "But the other is better," Gen said.Roxane pulled her feet into her chair and hugged her knees to her chest. "Better. I hate to say better, but it is. If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flat- tering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
His understanding that he would eventually lose every sweetness that had come to him only made him hold those very things closer to his chest.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
It was already in place, without him seeing any of it, the web was spun and snug around the house, and while his first impulse, the natural impulse, was to press ahead anyway and see if he might beat out the odds, clear logic held him.
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Ann Patchett _ Bel Canto
The kind of love that offers itself so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned."
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