“I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.”

“I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.”

“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”

“She once told me that she loved me because I was the only thing she could hear. She can feel the vibration of the strings through the carved vessel of her instrument, but I am inside her. I am a song soaked into each bone of her secret body where the world has not been able to wander.”

“Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things”

“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.”

“The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.”