"I'm looking at all this and I'm thinking that one day, I won't be here to see it and I know I'll miss it, even if I won't have a heartbeat to miss anything. I miss it now for the-days-when, the way I miss places I've never traveled to or things I've never done." [...] "He lived in a future that wouldn't be his to live in and longed for a past that hadn't been his either."