They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.