

“Home is hard. Harder than Reasons. It's more a storage unit for your life and its collections. It's more than an address, or even the house you grew up in. People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home is the heart. Not a place or a time, but an organ, pumping life into my life. There may be more mosquitos and stepmothers than I imagined, but it's still my heart. My home.”
― Mosquitoland
― Mosquitoland

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.”
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Sometimes a thing doesn’t seem real until we say it out loud.”
― Mosquitoland
― Mosquitoland

“As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighborhoods, school, an army. Maybe you will all dress the same, or laugh at your own private vocabulary. Maybe you will flop on couches backstage, or share a boardroom table, or crowd around a galley inside a ship. But in each band you join, you will play a distinct part, and it will affect you as much as you affect it.”
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
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