if only children could rule the world

I honestly don't know how much longer I can go on singing out loud like this. Isn't the whole point of your powers to help people face things they don't want to face? Maybe everything that happened today is the universe telling you you need to stop avoiding it and go face your father. You've got this.

Zoey, I just told you I loved you. I literally just sang my heart out in front of a mall— I have a superpower! Okay? Okay, forget it. You know, you could have just told me you weren't interested. That probably would've hurt— I'm serious. I hear people's inner thoughts. They sing them to me, constantly. That's why I'm off in Zoeyland. I'm not who you think I am. I am a mutant. I am "The X-Men" meets "The Voice".

She was singing "Say My Name" over and over. Yeah, nothing good happens after someone sings that song. But I don't understand why she's so upset. I talked to her, like, 20 minutes ago. What changed all of a sudden? Does it matter? If she's singing it, she's feeling it. Isn't that the rule? Yes. You're right. And another rule is that now I have to deal with it.

It seems to me that you just need to change your relationship with failure. And I do that how exactly? Hm. Take my line of bespoke berets. I didn't sell not a damn one of these online. You know what happened? No. But I'm hoping this story ends in Paris. A designer saw them online and asked me to make him a line of scarves, which he never paid me for. But because of him, I met another guy who commissioned me to make a series of portraits of his mother. Weird. But more lucrative than these berets. You'll get better at this. As long as you see every failure not as defeat but as a stepping stone on the road to success.

You want assurances that you're actually helping whenever you do something for someone? Yes. If you're only motivated by proof, keep your eyes open, 'cause you might just see a miracle. I'm not talking about giant-sized ones like parting the Red Sea, but little ones; the signposts that you're on the right path.

Did you talk to your boss like you said you were going to? I mean, I sort of did, until I found out that what she's so unsatisfied with has something to do with her love life, and then I just ran the other direction. We're learning something new about your power, then. Just because you don't want to help somebody does not mean the universe is gonna say: "Thank you. Next."

Whatever this new ability is, I discovered that all the programmers at work hate me. On the other hand, I was able to communicate with my dad again and bond with my office crush. On the other hand, my office crush has a fiancée, and my best friend is in love with me. Or at least thinks he's in love with me. He did say "I think I love you" when he sang, so hopefully that'll just blow over. I'm sorry. I got bored about three "on the other hands" ago.

Songs are all just an expression of our deepest wants and desires: joy, pain, heartbreak, yearning, forgiveness, revenge. Good music can make you feel things you can't express in words.