“Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.”

“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.”

“I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.”

“That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.”

“[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.”

“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.”

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”