He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”

“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Beca…”

“All Creatures know that some must dieThat all the rest may take and eat;Sooner …”

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would…”