Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.