Best Of Tia Williams' A Love Song For Ricki Wilde

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams 



“To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favourite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over, until it’s familiar and cherished and they know every note by heart. That’s how Dr. Bennett and I loved each other. He was music I could listen to forever.”

p. 15


It sounded like the instinctual ecstasy of you and your girl reaching for each other midsleep, barely conscious, not thinking, just feeling. Ezra “Breeze” walker played “Carolina Shout” like it was a torch song. It was jazz, but the blues, too. Rhythm and blues.

p.47


It fascinated Ricki that she went out in the world with an actual cup of tea. Not a travel mug or a to-go tumbler. And it was her good china, as if she were entertaining guests in her parlour. It had the same chaotic confidence of a kid traipsing into first period with no backpack.

p.56


You can’t cheat grief, Ricki. You have to work with it. Accommodate it.

p.68


“The kind of love that makes you ignore inevitability, right?” 

p.68


That was the transcendent power of a song! The really good ones could rearrange the topography of your soul. It was what drove a musician’s sublime hunger.

p. 149 (in reference to Dizzy Gillespie’s 'A Night in Tunisia')


Rashida shrugged. “Way too big. Only a cheating man buys such ostentatious diamonds.”

p.303


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