" because maybe if you write an entire poem on self-loathing, just to say something nice in the very last line, that will balance out everything else. (we both know that will not balance out everything else.) but sometimes it’s nice to pretend. to hope a bit of good will outweigh the bad. to believe changing one note in the final chord will make them forget they were ever in a minor key at all. "

― Caroline Kaufman , When the World Didn't End