• "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
• "Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."
• "I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."
• "Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war."
• "Songs are as sad as the listener."
• "My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met."
• "We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it."
• "We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how."
• "Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs."
• "I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing."
• "I was more alone than if I had been alone."

- J S F