“When I was writing "Nineteen" I was using age as a metaphor. I was saying, at 19 I had gotten out of a five year relationship, and instead of writing about that relationship, I jumped into a new relationship. I was amazed and terrified and saddened, but also excited and totally mystified at how it was possible at 26 I was feeling the same things I was feeling at 19. How is it possible that I haven’t learned something? That I’m back in the same place suffering and tormented? Don’t I get a “Get out of jail free” card or a pass or something to get beyond the stage of being tormented by love? [..] We do the same things over and over again. That’s what’s so great and so horrible about love and the human condition. We will love and torment and get hurt and break our hearts, and then go right back to it. We love it, we’re addicted to it, it’s how we survive. It’s where we derive so much of our passion from. ”