Chapter 5 -- Orange
"It is the secret of knowing yourself and your materials so well that you can wrap your life's experiences int the very body of an instrument, just as a true musician puts his or her life experiences into the playing of it, as I had seen at the hospice. And when both elements are right, then together -- marker and musician -- you can persuade your violin to sing and cry and dance the orange."
Chapter 6 -- Yellow
"If it was gold in color, went the argument, then it must surely share characteristics with gold, and could be used for transformations."
Chapter 7 -- Green
"For many cultures red is both death and life -- a beautiful and terrible paradox. In our modern language of metaphors, red is angry, it is fire, it is the stormy feelings of the heart, it is love, it is the god of war, and it is power."
Chapter 8 -- Blue
"Ultramarine is a world that has always seemed to me to taste of the ocean. It has a smooth, salty, sound, suggesting a bluer blue than even the Mediterranean can select on a sunny morning." (pg 281)
"We were flying over snow-covered mountains...Looking down at the inhospitable terrain, it was almost impossible to believe that anybody could live there at all." (pg 299)
Chapter 9 -- Indigo
"-- archaeologists confirmed that metals had been found on the skin if at least one body, and speculated that the Celts may have been covered with blue tattoos." (pg 324)
"He crystallized his understanding of gravity; he began to formulate theories of the planets; and with the help of two prisms he had picked up at local fair, he discovered that the colors of the rainbow were held within white light." (pg 339)
Chapter 10 -- Violet
"Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own it would surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, or John Keat's "purple-stained mouth," or perhaps even Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea." (pg 363)
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