We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

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

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.