“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.”

“My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to get more time. He spent all the time he had with us thinking about how he wished he had more time, if he could only have more time.”

“He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.”

“As his counterpart, the woman completes or fills out a man's life, making him a larger person than he could have been alone, bringing into his frame of reference a new feminine dimension from which to view life that he could have known in no other way. Then, too, he also brings to his wife a masculine perspective that enlarges her life, making her a fuller, more complete person than she could have been apart from him. This marriage union by covenant solves the problem of loneliness not merely by filling a gap, but by overfilling it. More than mere presence is involved. The loneliness of mere masculinity or femininity is likewise met.”

“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.”

“He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly”