"Things should be more precious to us if they don't last." He thought of Eleanor, then, of Lily, and of how - in a way he hadn't really entertained before - he would lose them someday. Or they would lose him. It came to the same thing.

He thought it with no fear, but with a little sadness.

"Often these days I think about time. How we can see it differently, even if we measure it the same."