That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

“He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, l…”

“How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myse…”

“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as …”

“Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you …”