“People play games, the whole damned thing’s a game. And friends are just a part of it. They lie, they pretend to know you, to get you. They even pretend to love you, sometimes. But they leave, they always do, in the end. You can try all you want. But I promise you, if there’s one thing I know for sure about people, it’s that they leave.”

“Music is the only place where time does not exist.”

“The idea of watching her walk away, taking every happy thing with her, was suddenly the very worst thing I could imagine.”