“I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.”

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 32 (p. 665)

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