Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.
The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.
Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
I wondered why life had to suck so hard sometimes.
I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.
Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.
I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?" Nora, Crescendo
