But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.