“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your ol...”

“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.”

“I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”

“But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you Ill be in love with tomorrow.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone call, the telegram--w...”

“We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.”

“We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.”