If you lose all hope, you can always find it again. - Richard Ford

And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. You may just be too old. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time that you will ever feel this way again.

It was on such a night as this that the unhappy things came about.

A lot of things seem one way but are another. And how a thing seems is often just the game we play to save ourselves from great, panicking pain.