Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.