Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love