For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.

Survival feels like cowardice.

He is not the same person as when wemet, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.

This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.

When confidence is there, conviction is easy.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it . . .The fact always precedes the faith.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

You've got to connect with the things that you love.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.