Art doesn't typically get made by happy people. - Gabrielle Zevin

I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.

Happiness is a choice

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our "madness" to unite us, there wasn't anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.