“Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David”

“I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.”

“No, never regret destroying something written. Some things are best left hidden, especially if they can seriously hurt someone if they are found.”

“Sometimes the best reminders are the memories we choose to forget.”

“The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.”

“Daimonds are a girls best friend- they're sharper than knives”

“Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy’s mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of the bottle into his head when he tipped it back, demons that went about unloosing all the trouble they could find stashed in the catacombs of his mind. Every tragic thing that had ever happened, every self-doubt, every delusion, freed itself from bondage and revisited him when he drank.”