Book-quote of the week

'Music is an artform that involves organised sounds and silence, Madomasèla Léonie. We consider it now an entertainment, a diversion, but it is so much more than that. Think instead of knowledge expressed in terms of pitch, that is to say, melody and harmony; in terms of rhythm, that is tempo and metre; and in terms of the quality of sound, timbre, dynamics and texture. Put simply, music is a personal response to vibration.'
She nodded. 'I have read that it may, in certain situations, provide a link between this world and the next. That a person might pass from one dimension to another. Do you think there could be some veracity in such claims, Monsieur Baillard?'
He met her gaze. 'There is no pattern the human mind can device that does not exist already within the bounds of nature,' he said. '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'

This is taken from the book 'Sepulchre' by Kate Mosse, and it the sequel to The Labyrinth