Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

I want you to play me like a cello.

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

Anything that kills hope is a sin

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.