I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Life is nothing but a clump of mud

Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.