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« How do I forgive myself for all the futures I didn’t become ? I don’t know. »

« Forever looks a hundred different ways to a hundred different people. Why do you want to take the most boring route? »

« In the soft gray light of morning, he looked like the kind of muse any rose-tinted heart would write a thousand songs about. »

« No one told you what to do after you made it to the top, after you accomplished what you set out for -no one told you that the grass wasn’t greener, that you didn’t feel anymore whole, that whatever you were chasing and finally caught didn’t fill you with the kind of permanent happiness you expected. »

« At what point, I wondered, was the dream too much? What if it stopped fulfilling you? What if… what if it made a deep, empty hole inside of you instead? I began to wonder. Was songwriting still my dream, or was I just too afraid of giving up something I’d already sacrificed so much for? »

« Sometimes the dreams you come with aren’t the dreams you leave with. »

« All I heard in his head was failure, over and over again, as if by not being perfect the first time, it would never be perfect at all. It wasn’t that he was afraid, but used to it, resigned to it even. His thoughts kept spinning about the what-ifs of never being good enough, never getting it right. »

« I decided to do whatever the hell I wanted to, because in the end, if I’m not creating something that makes me feel, then what’s the fucking point? »