The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.