“Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.”

“This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.”

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”

“someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply”

“See, I get a round, hollow spot in my belly knowing I could tell him what's coming, but also knowing it would come out sounding like a warning.”