For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect – I guess that’s where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who’s there to remind you what you learned along the way.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.
There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it’s the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It’s far easier than telling ourselves the truth.
When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.
You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you’ve got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you’re making a mistake.
Some lessons can’t be taught, they simply have to be learned.
In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.
People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?
When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.
Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
The right idea is the one you can’t stop thinking about; the one that’s in your head first thing in the morning.
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things you’re willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you’ve lost yourself.
Where you come from does matter – but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
You know someone’s right for you when the things they don’t have to say are even more important than the things they do.