Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.