The Lola Quartet Quotes

She liked electronica, mostly ’80s stuff that didn’t move him, New Order singing about a thousand islands in the sea.

Django Reinhardt was always good, but he was at his best with Stéphane Grappelli.

but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives.

Sasha found herself at a loss for words. What am I asking you? I'm asking you if I was complicit in something unspeakable, because Anna, Anna, I already carry so much.

She put on her headphones and listened to electronica—an epiphany from childhood: when all lies in disarray there’s still order in music

This was what had caught her once, and held her here: once you stepped beyond the slot machines—and even these held a certain glinting allure— the casino was beautiful. White-and-gold ceilings arcing high between mahogany pillars, complicated parquet floors and thick carpets. When everything else around her had been squalid, there had always been this. This place had always held beauty even when it was killing her and the beauty reached her even now, even knowing what she did about how much could be lost here.