Why were the good days always so short? Moment to moment, day by day-each so full, and oh so lovely-and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them. (Kim Stanley Robinson)

Why were the good days always so short? Moment to moment, day by day-each so full, and oh so lovely-and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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