" You don’t understand,” she says. “Human lives are so fleeting compared to ours.” “You’re right,” Joe agrees. “I don’t understand, and I don’t particularly want to. Because what’s important is now. What’s important is the faith and trust and love you build with your relationship to someone else. What’s important is that you take care of your own and make sure wrongs are righted. "
― Charles de Lint , Widdershins (Newford #11)