About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

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

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

It's not that people like sad movies that make us feel like, "Oh, my god, what a bummer." We like emotionally moving experiences, where you feel like a slightly different person and you see the world a little different, after you finish. It lets you see your own life, in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good. And even though there might be sad content making this happen, the feeling that you're left with is one that is quite good, quite hopeful, clarifying and uplifting.