To Marry Medusa

Quotes

1. This country has music through its blood and bones like a disease, and a man cannot draw in a breath of air that isn’t a-thrum with it.

   p. 24

2. 

   I wouldn’t give you sand if I met you on the beach.

   p. 3

3. 

   A man with talent eats, sweats, and cares for his children like any other. And if talent is a natural thing, remember that water is also, and fire, and wind; therefore flood and holocaust and hurricane are as natural as talent, and can consume and destroy you.

   p. 27

4. 

   Love, Caroline, isn’t…that. Love is everything else that can be between a man and a woman, without that.

   p. 40

5. 

   There are always many ways to accomplish anything, but only one of them is really best. Which of them is best—that is the source of all argument on the production of anything, the creator of factions among the designers, and the first enemy of speed and efficiency.

   p. 142

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