

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music

“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music

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