Originally Posted by
BaitongBoy
Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen.
After that, if you don't watch out, you can spend all your time tallying your losses and gains in endless narrative.
All you love has fled or been taken away. Everything fallen from you except the possibility of jolting and unforewarned memory springing out of the dark, rushing over you with the velocity of heartbreak.
-Charles Frazier (author of Cold Mountain)
from Thirteen Moons