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

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have

Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Looking at him like that, I felt like I needed something from him, or somebody, and that probably meant that he also needed something from me, or somebody, but the revelation was like looking at spots on a slide. Knowing that it meant something to somebody wasn't the same as it meaning something to you.