“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.”

“We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.”

“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment.”

“It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”

“Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.”

“I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.”