"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

     - Franz Kafka

This is why I listen to Ani DiFranco and Counting Crows--the reason I listen to all of my sad bastard music--and fall in love with it like I would a spouse.