“if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.”
“Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.”
“The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.”
“Only fear stands in your way. Forge ahead in spite of it and don't let anything slip away. You could be glorious.”
“This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment, only to be washed away. I could grow up and drift away too.”
“My life before the flood was manageable; during the flood it was chaos. The National Weather Service only reported river levels, and at times, crest predictions. It didn't report or predict everything else that could go wrong.”