Quotes from Sepulchre

Kate Mosse ·  560 pages

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“Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre


“One cannot always marry the person one loves...”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre


“There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre


“There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre


“Music is a personal response to vibration.”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre



“Music (is) woven into the fabric of the corporeal world.”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre


“That sounds like one of those clever things people say that mean precisely nothing!”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre


About the author

Kate Mosse
Born place: in West Sussex, The United Kingdom
Born date October 20, 1961
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