“There was a time when I would never have believed that I’d be ok without you, that I would have fallen apart without you, when really my ego was what needed you. I needed to be the thing that kept you together, that made you want to try but no one should be that for anyone. I got better little by little, becoming different than I expected but better than I could have imagined. It seems backwards but sometimes you have to destroy the most important thing in your life to be who it is you’re supposed to be: gold, warm, alive.”

— Anaïs Escobar Mathers, One Week // One Band: Rilo Kiley Week—”Silver Lining”