Quotes by : Eleanor Catton

The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the....

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate....

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting,....

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what....

Tonight shall be the very beginning.''Was it?''It shall be. For me.''My beginning was the albatrosses.''That....

He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serious,....

If I have learned one thing from experience, it is this: never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult....

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.....