- Sister Marie: [Li Bai quote or quoting Saint Teresa of Calcutta - not full quote - please edit] For a time... an... For love to be real it must empty us of self.
- Gao: [to young Min when he was learning to play the erhu -- this is not the full quote, please edit] The notes must come from your heart. Ah Bing _____ 'Two Springs ____ ' Ah Bing ____. But Ah Bing was blind since birth. He had to imagine what moonlight reflecting from the heavens onto two springs that converge would look like. It is because of this I have hope to hang on to. Ah Bing imagined beauty even though he could not see. He did not give up on life because he could not see.
- can't remember: [not full quote, please edit] ... even when there's no light coming from outside there's... . light from within.
- Zhensheng (30's): [Reading Li Bai quote to young Ming] For a time, moon and shadow will be my companion, but now, a new joy awakes with each dawn.