One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the...
We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.
And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is�...
He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.
I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper.
Tucker, please put him down," said Annie. "You're frightening Jackson." "He's not," said Jackson. "It's cool. I don't like that guy anyway. Punch him, Dad.
Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be so...
easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.
