The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

Everything good requires sacrifices.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.

Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.