I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
You were one person, and you changed the world.
Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.
But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.