I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Love can make you immortal

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

Are you coming down with something?" Mom asks. And just for the tiniest of seconds, I wonder what would happen if I told them the truth. That school is nothing like I imagined it would be. That I'm not the girl in the catalog at all. I'm not a Happy College Student. I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.