Im in love with you he said quietly.Augustus I said.I am he said. He was staring at me and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. Im in love with you and Im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. Im in love with you and I know that love is just a shout into the void and that oblivion is inevitable and that were all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust and I know the sun will swallow the only earth well ever have and I am in love with you.

Some people dont understand the promises theyre making when they make them I said.Right of course. But you keep the promise anyway. Thats what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

As he read I fell in love the way you fall asleep slowly and then all at once.

I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldnt see it again and it occured to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

...and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

El mundo no es una fbrica de conceder deseos.

The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.