“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”

“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.”

“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love 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.”

“Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.”

“You can’t put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can’t have one without the other.”