Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.