“I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them. ”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.”

“Francie went over to stand at the great window from which she could see the East River twenty stories below. It was the last time she'd see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn't held it tighter when you had it every day. What had granma Mary Rommely said? "To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.After they were gone?That was all you thought about.Day and night.”