If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

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

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

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

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

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.