"The truth of life is that
every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us.
We get
shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good.
Things
happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose
their way, for one reason or another. It's not hard to do, in this world of
crazy mazes.
Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from
us.
You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something
but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she
calls you 'sir'. It just happens."
- Robert McCammon, Boy's Life
