#fr

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#end #final #glory #god #music

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#friends #readiest #suppressed #truth #weapon

The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread. ↗

— Saša Stanišić

#french #humor #self-deprecating #serbian #to-love

We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused with affection for my friends. If you could bottle this warm feeling and turn it into words, I thought, that would be the perfect toast. ↗

— Kerry Reichs

#music

Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers. ↗

— Sherman Edwards

#music

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#france #paris #parenting

Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record." Simon, Clary, and Jace, pg. 115 ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #simon-lewis #nature

I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #isabelle-lightwood #mortal-instruments #nature

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#beautiful #beauty #cruel #disappointment #everlasting

I'm proud to be a freak of nature. ↗

— Robin Brande

#nature #nature