“Music got a funny way of reminding you of what you thought you lost”

“Sometimes a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city”

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

“I think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.”

“Do you not find consciousness alone to be the most exhilarating thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”

"I see you... with the I underlined about a hundred times.'

"I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. All right?"

"He welcomed it with relief, because it was, at last, the punishment he deserved."

'Connor's grief was a physical thing, gripping him like a clamp, clenching him tight as a muscle. He could barely breathe from the sheer effort of it, and he sank to the ground again, wishing it would just take him, once and for all.'

"I'm so tired of all this."
Then sleep, said the monster. There is time.