When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.

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

In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.

Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. “Are you hungry?”she asks. Am I ever.