You only know you love her when you let her go.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low.

Elvis ate America before America ate him.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

your voice is a place i want to take shelter in, a place that makes me feel safe and soft.

At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.