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"How foolish and vain of me, to reject that gift. For most thirteen-year-olds, reality has the reach of their gaze, and they confuse that radius with the universe. Their present is all of time. History is no rival for their fleeting joys and woes, and there's only boredom between those extremes. You're smarter and more curious than I, so this may not happen to you, but when you get to that age, you'll understand…"

“David was lonesome for a big face full of sunlight. He wouldn't get it. A sad thought—this chill would accompany him right to the end. David had already gotten his last sunny day and it had happened without him knowing it.
Tears sprang to his eyes.
So couldn't he have another chance? Now that he knew to look out for it?”

“That's the way we New Yorkers feel about fall. Come September, despite the waning hours, despite the leaves succumbing to the weight of gray autumnal rains, there is a certain relief to having the long days of summer behind us, and there's a paradoxical sense of rejuvenation in the air.”

“…and I smiled, and she smiled, and I came home and hugged my mom, and she looked at me with a smile and asked if anything special happened at school today, as if she could sense a new energy in my hug, as if she suspected that I had met someone who liked me for who I was.”