Dawn comes early when you wish it would not. The hours flash when you want them to drag. - Glen Cook

It proved to be much farther than I had hoped. It always is when you are running away.

Though not as bad as most, he was going through that stage where he knew everything worth knowing and nothing his elders said—particularly if it bore any vaguely education hue—was worth hearing. He could not help that. It went with the age.
And I was my age and could not help saying things I knew would do no good.

I did not expect them to try anything but I am alive at my age because I make a habit of being ready for trouble when it seems most unlikely.