“But sometimes something shone like a gold ring at the bottom of the stream, and a sentence came to me with perfect clarity.

Like this one: "Everything you want right now, everything you want so passionately and think you'll never get - you will get it someday." I accidentally met her eyes, and it felt like she was talking to me. "Yes, you will get it," she said, looking right at me, "but by that time, you won't want it anymore. That's how it happens.”