“We see in others what we want and what we fear.”

“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.”

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

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

“Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.”

“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.”

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