We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds

The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.

I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you. I could lose everything else, and as long as I still had you and a guitar I know I’d be all right. Do you get what I’m saying?

I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.

No one commits suicide because they want to die.