You needed love to win at the game of music…I played of sadness. I played of loneliness. Despair. Love found and lost. I played of tragic misunderstanding and weary cynicism and defeat. I played of perseverance, endurance beyond all suffering. Endurance in the face of hopelessness, hope when even hope was a betrayal…And yet, though I played so much sadness, the music at the same time denied despair. How could anyone despair while music was being played?

You needed love to win at the game of music…I played of sadness. I played of loneliness. Despair. Love found and lost. I played of tragic misunderstanding and weary cynicism and defeat. I played of perseverance, endurance beyond all suffering. Endurance in the face of hopelessness, hope when even hope was a betrayal…And yet, though I played so much sadness, the music at the same time denied despair. How could anyone despair while music was being played?

– Katherine Applegate –

© License assigned to YouCanQuoteME. License CC BY-NC 4.0

📲 Copy this QR code to share the phrase wherever you want