“A trial was a stupid word, consideringthat an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.”

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”

“This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.”

“This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.”

“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.”

“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”

“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”